Executable file types such as .exe. .bat or .msi are not supported to automatically open after download in Google Chrome as once opened, these files can automatically execute themselves.

A PDF — which stands for Portable Document Format — is an open standard document file extension created by Adobe. It has gained popularity in recent years because of the ease of use it affords ...

You can open local files of your computer on Chrome, Edge or Firefox with the help of a single keyboard shortcut on Windows 11/10 PC.

You can test it by setting the button to Open PDFs in Chrome, then going to File->Open File and opening a PDF. If Open PDFs in Chrome is selected, your PDF will open.

While Chrome’s method of accessing PDF files on Android isn’t changing, feature researcher @Leopeva64 on X (formerly Twitter) recently spotted a new flag in the Canary build, changing how PDFs ...

Chrome is testing PWA to support double-clicking to open local files. Testing of this feature under the file processing API flag is complete.