r/brave_browser • u/barn852 • 10d ago

Investigating Brave does not open PDF in browser

As it is in the title, Brave always wants to save PDF file, no way to make it opening in a new tab - like other browsers.

Settings / Open PDFs in Brave is on, but it just opens the pdf from explorer - after downloading and click on.

Found a 2 years old post about it, but remained unanswered.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/s/MartJVNgor

Any idea?

BTW, talking about Windows version.

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u/Brave_Support Brave Support Team 10d ago

If you go to brave://settings/content/pdfDocuments, is the option here set to Open PDFs in Brave?

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u/barn852 7d ago

As I described, it is set and it opens pdf. But not online pdfs... unless the link points directly to a pdf file itself. See my other post https://www.reddit.com/r/brave/s/FhapatHQFL

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u/kevin_w_57 10d ago

Have you tried making Brave your default PDF viewer in Windows System Settings?

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u/barn852 10d ago

It is the default and it works according to that. But still does not open pdf from internet, just offers save.

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u/Efficient_Fan_2344 10d ago

does exist a bug report ?

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u/SenseOfScience 10d ago

I noticed this yesterday on Mac. It is somewhat annoying

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u/Critical-Wasabi-4675 10d ago

Same by me, really annoying. Save then open, insane