--- title: Google Chrome Users—STP Online is Best Viewed with Adobe Reader description: STP Online publications best viewed in Adobe Reader image: https://blog.stpub.com/hs-fs/file-17029093-jpg/images/giffen.jpg --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [Google Chrome Users—STP Online is Best Viewed with Adobe Reader](https://blog.stpub.com/bid/125795/Google-Chrome-Users-STP-Online-is-Best-Viewed-with-Adobe-Reader) Posted by [Andy Giffen](https://blog.stpub.com/author/andy-giffen) on Thu, Mar 22, 2012 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![Andy Giffen](https://blog.stpub.com/hs-fs/file-17029093-jpg/images/giffen.jpg) I love Google Chrome! It’s fast, it’s clean, and it’s wonderful. What’s not wonderful is how the Chrome PDF viewer opens our publications for subscribers in [STP Online](http://stponline.stpub.com). Sure, it renders PDF content in its browser faster than Adobe does, but by removing the PDF bookmark navigation, it makes it hard to read further than the title page. The good news is I’ve found a way to tell Google Chrome to open all PDFs using Adobe Reader instead of the Chrome PDF Viewer. This doesn’t apply to Internet Explorer and Firefox users, who are already able to enjoy our comprehensive up-to-date publications in those web browsers. But for our subscribers using the Google Chrome as their default browser, here’s how to change the PDF Viewer to Adobe and read our on-line publications as they were meant to be seen. Let’s begin: Open Google Chrome and type: **about:plugins** into your URL bar and press ‘Enter.’ ![img1 urlbar](https://blog.stpub.com/hs-fs/file-17034493-png/images/img1_urlbar.png) On the Chrome plug-in page, simply click ‘Enable’ underneath Adobe Acrobat: ![img2 enable](https://blog.stpub.com/hs-fs/file-17034752-png/images/img2_enable.png) You have now disabled the Chrome PDF Viewer. ![img3 disable](https://blog.stpub.com/hs-fs/file-17035050-png/images/img3_disable.png) That's all there is to it. Simply close your browser window and you're ready to view our content in [STP Online](http://stponline.stpub.com). When you want to view your PDFs in Google Chrome’s browser again, it’s easy to switch back to the default settings from the **about:plugins** page. Tags: [STP Online](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/stp-online), [PDF Reader](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/pdf-reader), [Google Chrome](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/google-chrome), [Adobe Acrobat](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/adobe-acrobat) ### Follow Me ### Subscribe by Email ### Browse by Topic Area - [Accounting & Tax ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/accounting-tax) - [Business & Legal ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/business-legal) - [Corporate Governance  ](https://blog.stpub.com/?Tag=Corporate+Governance) - [Environmental ](https://blog.stpub.com/?Tag=Environmental) - [Global ](https://blog.stpub.com/?Tag=Global) - [Health & Safety ](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety) - [Internet ](https://blog.stpub.com/?Tag=Internet) - [Transportation ](https://blog.stpub.com/?Tag=Transportation) ### Browse by Tag - [Environmental (344)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental) - [Business & Legal (309)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/business-legal) - [Environmental risks (300)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/environmental-risks) - [Health & Safety (296)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/health-safety) - [EPA (283)](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/epa) - [Terms & Conditions](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/STP-Terms-of-Use-Dec-20.pdf) - [Privacy Policy](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/STP-Privacy-Policy.pdf) - [License Agreement](https://stphub.stpehs.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/STP-License-Agreement-Dec-20.pdf) - [Sitemap](http://stpub.com/sitemap) - [Support](http://stpub.com/support) © 2021 STP ComplianceEHS - All rights reserved