Adobe Reader plugin in Chrome browser

Report · Apr 22, 2015

After last Google Chrome update (42.0.2311.90) I can not find Adobe Reader plugin.

I have 2 options now - open PDF in Acrobate Reader or open by Chrome PDF plugin.

And native Chrome PDF plugin does not submits form data...

Is it possible to fix this issue and open forms in chrome window by Acrobat Reader plugin?

Report · Apr 22, 2015

Here's the direct link:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/chrome/Stable/TYbj21PkcAQ

INSTRUCTIONS TAKEN FROM PAGE:

With the latest update to Chrome, certain types of plugins, known as NPAPI plugins, are longer be available. This may be why some of your plugins are no longer working.

We suggest that you contact the website owners and suggest they change to a more modern, secure technology.

Please visit our blog posts for more information: Saying Goodbye to NPAPI, the Final Countdown for NPAPI, NPAPI deprecation: developer guide.

However, as a temporary workaround you can enable a flag. Here’s how:

Go to chrome://flags/#enable-npapi

Choose Enable.

At the bottom left of your screen, click Relaunch Now.

You can use this flag to run NPAPI plugins until Chrome version 45. Please let us know if you have any specific questions or feedback.

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Report · Apr 22, 2015

Hi Yury_Vitovsky,

The Adobe Reader plugin will not be supported in Chrome. The Chromium team has decided to remove support for NPAPI plugins like Adobe Reader. Here's a blog post that describes their decision - Chromium Blog: The Final Countdown for NPAPI

On Windows, it is still possible to change the Chrome default PDF viewing behavior by configuring plugins (chrome://plugins).

Please refer the KB: Configure browser to use the Adobe PDF plug-in

Regards,

Aadesh

Report · Apr 22, 2015

Hi aadeshs76610910,

thanks for your explanation.

I understand that by now we (and our customers) have to download PDF and open it by Adobe Reader or other PDF viewer standalone application.

Ok, it should work.

But we have web application with integrated PDF functionality on Adobe Reader platform. And it will be not so easy for user to switch between two applications...

Does Adobe have plans to create new PDF reders plugins (extensions) for Google Chrome?

Thanks,

Yury

Report · Apr 22, 2015

Hey Yury_Vitovsky,

Google has moved out of NPAPI plugin support not Adobe, so Google Chromium team will be able to provide you a better answer for it. And yes it will be working fine with other web browsers like IE, Firefox etc.