Brian wrote:
" After saving the file the pop-up menu on the downloaded file
icon at the lower left presents: Open, Always Open with System Viewer,
Open with
System Viewer, Show in Folder, and Cancel (which is stippled out if the
download is complete). This is confirmed in
this post from April 2015
in the Google Product Help Forums for Chrome."
Sorry, Brian, but that's a sighted response. We don't often have good
luck with "pop-up menus" and "file icons." If we're lucky we might hear
JAWS read them, but it's less common that we can get there from here and
actually do something with them. If you know of some sort of keyboard
command that can get us to where those notifications go, awesome. And
I'll confess right now that I haven't read the rest of the day's mail
yet. I just got home.
Brad
On 1/29/2016 9:23 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:
Adrian,
I cannot explain what is happening on your machine, but I
have just "recreated" the entire sequence on mine. I am using Chrome
47 on WIndows 10.
Once the Chrome PDF Viewer is disabled (and I've managed to
turn off the "Always Open with System Viewer" option, which requires
speed once it's on), the default action when click on a PDF link is
saving the file.
After saving the file the pop-up menu on the downloaded file
icon at the lower left presents: Open, Always Open with System
Viewer, Open with System Viewer, Show in Folder, and Cancel (which is
stippled out if the download is complete). This is confirmed in this
post from April 2015
<https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/A3XrBbHD80U/lKSOzvgprPwJ>
in the Google Product Help Forums for Chrome.
If I check the "Always Open with System Viewer" option all
subsequent clicks on any PDF link cause it to open in whatever PDF
viewer I have set up on my system as my default.
I have just repeated the process on my Windows 7 machine and
it varies only in slight details. Adobe Reader XI is the default PDF
viewer on this machine. After the Chrome PDF viewer is turned off the
first click on a PDF link causes a save dialog to pop up and after the
download is complete the standard split button for a completed
download shows in the Chrome Status Bar at the bottom left. Clicking
on the right side of the split button causes a pop-up menu to appear
that has the following options, in order: Open when done, Always open
in Adobe Reader, Pause, Show in folder, Cancel - none of which are
stippled out. If I select the "Always open in Adobe Reader" option
for this first file then all subsequent clicks on PDF links download
the file "behind the scenes" and immediately open it in Adobe Reader.
There is no doubt that Chrome can and does do the same thing
that Firefox and IE can do with PDF files. This may not be occurring
for you, but it's not a feature lacking in Chrome, but an idiosyncrasy
on your system.
Brian
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