Google-chrome – How to reload the Chrome PDF Viewer in Google Chrome

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After getting close to maxing out on my RAM, PDFs do not show up anymore on Google Chrome:

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How can I reload the Chrome PDF Viewer in Google Chrome? I don't want to have to restart Chrome.

I tried going to chrome://plugins hoping I could reload the PDF viewer as I typically do for crashed extensions, but the Chrome PDF Viewer is grayed out:

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Best Answer

Press Shift+Escape (or go to More tools->Task manager in the menu), click Plugin: Chrome PDF Viewer, and click "End process":

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You also need to kill all minehandler corresponding to PDFs you have tried to open:

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All of the PDFs will now turn into frowny face puzzle pieces. Once they do that, reload the page and they should appear.