Opera browser has been around for many many years. It has undergone a complete overhaul ever since the developers decided to drop the old gecko rendering engine and adopted the new blink rendering engine that is actually being developed and used by Google for their Chrome web browser. And you can see the effect – the newer versions of Opera are as fast and memory efficient as Chrome itself. Since they both used the same web rendering engine, they both have many of the features identical to each other. For example, Just like Chrome browser, Opera can also display PDF documents right inside the browser window.
But if you do not want to view PDF documents in the Opera browser and want to use your installed PDF viewer application to handle them, then you can make some changes in Opera settings. Here is how:
- Launch the Opera web browser and press the hotkey Alt+P to open the settings.
- Make sure that you select Websites section from the left-side before scrolling down the settings screen to find the PDF Documents feature.
- Select the checkbox labeled Open PDF files in the default PDF viewer application.
- Close the settings tab. Now Opera will no longer attempt to display PDF documents using the inbuilt PDF viewer.
Before you make changes in the Opera settings as explained above, you should also install a third party PDF viewer application in Windows so that PDF documents so that when you click on a PDF document link in the Opera web browser, it can open the document in the default PDF viewer. You can choose from a large number of popular PDF viewers for Windows, for example, Foxit PDF Viewer, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Nitro PDF Reader, PDF X-Change Viewer (this is my personal favorite) and many more.