I think it's a fudge solution and doesn't help much,. Are you sure you aren't blocking PDF plugins or something? It shouldn't be downloading them at all but showing them within Chrome viewer by default If you change the setting you're talking about you'd force it to open in the external program e.
Adobe etc Steve. I believe the issue with Chrome is dropped NPAPI support and it looks to me as all the workaround still result in a download so the original issue remains. I guess a couple of options are a look at an alternative PDF viewer if you don't like Chrome's or have a auto-cleanup of the users download area.
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This does not work on Terminal Servers and with Chrome version This topic has been locked by an administrator and is no longer open for commenting. Instead of clicking to open, click on the little arrow to the right and select "Always open files of this type". Try to open in the web browser and add sheet protection in the document. The excel webapp can deal with sheet protection and then it forces you to open in excel without the download.
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