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Monday, September 8, 2014

How to Unfreeze "Initializing" message When Viewing PDF on Chrome

When clicking on a PDF file to view it, a window pops up to show it loading with the message "Initializing...". After a while, you notice that the window is indeed frozen and there is no progress in getting the PDF shown.

This is because of a conflict occuring between Adobe Reader X and Chrome PDF viewer.

What you need to do:
1. Type "chrome:plugins"  in the address bar in Chrome
2. Search for "Adobe Viewer X", then Disable it
3. Search for "Chrome PDF viewer", then Enable it.
After this, everything should work once again.