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I've noticed that recent Chrome version does not allow me to download the pdf I'm viewing. I had to open it in Firefox. The Chrome browser only allowed me to save it to drive (cloud)

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I downloaded a PDF within updated Chrome earlier this morning without problems. I would be looking at your setup to see what makes it unique.

You can absolutely download PDFs on the all Chrome versions including the most recent. You need to do is set chrome to download them instead of open them.

I am a developer but have to deal with questions on this regularly from people's at my company due to the IT department being small.

Seems weird. I'm in Chrome right now and I can right-click on PDFs and click save as.

I mean once you get into a pdf. Sometimes web page opens it instead of allowing download. The built-in pdf browser of chrome has no option to save it locally on android phone. I have not been not precise in explaining, because I find Google and Android constantly reducing my ownership of my own phone and that's another brick in the wall here

Click on the three dots top right.

There is now a bar of 5 icons at the top. The middle icon, "download", saves the PDF.

Edit: Long-pressing each icon will show you small pop-up text for the icon/action.

What does C-S do?

I have the opposite problem: I want to simply render the pdfs so I can, you know, read them. not download them like they are data to be fed into another app.

Did you try finding a print button?

To… save? I get that you can print to a file and it’ll save it that way of course, but damn that strikes me as really confusing for non-techies

right-click save-as?

This is how I get around that same issue, but it truly is a hacky workaround.

Save or export would make more sense but printing to pdf has been the way to do it forever.

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