Chrome view file as text instead of downloading

Krishna Vallabhaneni. This is the reason why Chrome doesn't do that automatically: This step helps prevent malicious software from automatically downloading to your computer. The simplest way it to just click on the progress meter along the bottom once the download has initiated. PDF and Flash are special cases since they are handled internally by Chrome but you can override that to use 3rd party plug-ins or applications.

That's unusual. Ok yeah, I think I was bad in phrasing what I wanted to ask. Share Share Tweet Email. Related Topics Answers. To get to settings go to the three little drop down and you go down to Settings, third from the bottom right there. Then click on Advanced, and downloads.

That is the option we want to go and have cleared. Or you can click show in folder. Show in folder is great because it can show you where everything is downloaded to, and not only that, you can be able to make sure if you did download something one, two, three times whoops! You can have access to everything that did get downloaded to that location.

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This is an incoherent and mostly uninteresting collection of posts on a variety of topics. Generally these are small guides aimed at helping others save some time, and making sure I'm not forgetting how I fixed something. I'm a software developer and manager in the daytime and tinkerer in the evenings. I love technology and making stuff. Titan Theme by The Theme Foundry. Follow: RSS. Tags cache , chrome , compile. The solution, with the cause now found, is equally simple: menu, settings , scroll to bottom, click advanced , click clear browsing data and select how long a time you have been frustrated: last day usually does it for me.

And then click Clear browsing data.