The Chrome PDF reader now supports table of contents, page thumb previews, rotate and Fit-to-page controls.

But even after you've upgraded to Chrome 87, you may be surprised to find that nothing has changed for you. This is because Google has hidden the revamped PDF viewer behind an optional flag.

With Chrome 87, Google has introduced a new UI for the PDF reader and here's how you can enable it if you don't have it already.

For people who hate ads, auto-play videos, and busy web pages, we’ve got some good news: Google Chrome is adding a reader mode. On Thursday, Google stealthily added the feature to the ...

Q: Whenever I download a PDF from my web browser it doesn't open up in Adobe Reader as I would like. Instead, it opens up in Google Chrome like a webpage.

Looking through the list of plugins, you should see a disabled one called Chrome PDF Viewer; click Enable under it. You should now be able to view PDFs in Chrome. The viewer is very fast.

Tried opening a PDF file only to be told the file won't load? It's probably not corrupted but needs to opened using a reader not a browser.