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Google Chrome has plugin to view pdf files inside the browser.

Is there any plugin for chromium which can do this?

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Do you have Google Chrome installed? If you do have it installed, you can just make a link to the libpdf.so plugin in the Chromium folder:

sudo ln -s /opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/

After that, enter about:plugins in Chromium, search for Chrome PDF Viewer and enable it.

If you don't have Google Chrome already installed, I suggest you to download the .deb package and extract it. Then, you must navigate to the folder data/opt/google/chrome and copy the libpdf.so to the /usr/lib/chromium-browser/. More details.

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Works like a charm! Thank you! – madox2 Nov 23 '12 at 13:45
@madox2: I'm glad it worked :) – Victor Hugo Nov 23 '12 at 13:46
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remember to restart chromium for the libpdf.so to take effect. – CravingSpirit May 10 at 22:22

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