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Wed 2009-07-08

Use FoxIt Reader in Chrome

Filed under: — daniel @ 07:43

Chrome fast. FoxIt reader fast. But by default they don’t work together so well, insisting on PDFs being saved to disk before FoxIt will open them.

Here’s how to get read PDFs inside Chrome using FoxIt reader:

  • Copy the file npFoxitReaderPlugin.dll from C:\Program Files\Foxit Software\Foxit Reader\plugins to C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\plugins
  • If the plugins directory doesn’t exist, then create it
  • C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome… only exists if you’ve used the Google Pack version of Chrome. If instead you’ve got the version that (oddly) shoves it into C:\Documents and Settings\USER\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\ then you’ll need to find the right place under there for it.
  • Restart Chrome

(Source: Chrome forum post, and some fiddling/experimentation)

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4 Responses to “Use FoxIt Reader in Chrome”

  1. Phil says:

    You also need the FoxitReaderOCX.ocx loaded in the plugins folder.Foxit will only download this if you have Firefox installed :( I had to install Firefox then install Foxit ,uninstall Firefox then paste the plugin folder ( .dll and .ocx) into Chrome.PDF files now open within Chrome with Foxit :)

  2. Farhan Ahmad says:

    Nice :) Thanks for the info!

  3. Anonymous says:

    Top stuff!

  4. SB-X says:

    Perhaps this goes without saying, but you’ll need to have FoxIt’s auto-downloader download and install the Firefox plugin to begin with.

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