If you keep Chrome up-to-date without changing any settings, any PDF you download may open within the web browser by default.

How to Configure Chrome to Open JNLP Files. Java Network Launching Protocol, or JNLP files, are used for launching Java programs and Web applets over the Internet or company intranet.

Why automatically open downloaded files in Chrome? If you deal with downloading and sorting many files daily, automatically opening downloaded files in Google Chrome can save you some time.

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.

Google Docs is compatible with Microsoft Office documents. If you want to open an Office document in Google Docs through the Chrome browser, use the suite's Import utility.