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Would you like to view documents, presentations, and PDFs directly in Google Chrome?  Here’s a handy extension that makes Google Docs your default online viewer so don’t have to download the file first.

Getting Started

By default, when you come across a PDF or other common document file online in Google Chrome, you’ll have to download the file and open it in a separate application.

It’d be much easier to simply view online documents directly in Chrome.  To do this, head over to the Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer page on the Chrome Extensions site (link below), and click Install to add it to your browser.

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Ever notice that when using Chrome to view some RSS feeds it works ok and on others it just displays the Raw data as a bunch of lines of text?

I didn’t think so but for the one person out there who does, this is for you.

So when you click on an RSS feed like this one http://lucas719.info/?feed=rss2 you get this:

Now this is caused by Google Chrome not autodetecting the RSS feed.

We can use this extension for Google Chrome to support the ability to autodetect RSS feeds. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd

and now instead of just seeing Raw text data we see this: