Open files without download (save) them to the computer

 · To open docs automatically in Chrome without them being saved; Go to the the three vertical dots on your top far right corner in Chrome. Scroll down to Settings and click. Scroll down to Show advance settings Scroll down to Downloads under Download location: click the Change button and chose tmp folder. Then just close the screen.  · The options, to block some folders from being synced or to use the OneDrive website to access these files, are less comfortable than the placeholder solution. Sean Ong published a YouTube video recently that demonstrates an option that brings back all .  · Firefox has a built in PDF viewer that can open a PDF document for you without saving and I believe it is enabled by default,but if you are trying to open some other formats, I am afraid you would require some addons.

To save a file or image on your computer or device, download it. The file will be saved in your default download location. On your computer, open Chrome. Go to the web page where you want to download the file. Save the file: Most files: Click on the download link. Or, right-click on the file and choose Save as. If you're using a computer without Word installed, there are other ways to view that DOCX or DOC file. Microsoft once offered a free "Word Viewer" application that would let you view Word documents, but discontinued it back in November To open docs automatically in Chrome without them being saved; Go to the the three vertical dots on your top far right corner in Chrome. Scroll down to Settings and click. Scroll down to Show advance settings Scroll down to Downloads under Download location: click the Change button and chose tmp folder.

As Yusuf mentions, the default behaviour is to download the file and take no further action. However, you can set Chrome to open certain file types automatically: Find the file at the bottom of the. Save or Run the attachments directly like the one below. If you click Run it'll open bltadwin.ru you click on the down arrow next to Save it'll give to 2 options- Save or. Save and Run. If Save is selected it'll just save it and you'll have to go to the save location to open it. And if you Select Save and Run-It'll save and will also open it at the same time. I changed the download save folder to the a standard 'temp' folder. I make it a normal practice to delete the contents of the folder each time I log off the computer. If I want the file, then I do a 'save as' and locate the file in the desired folder with my choice of name.