I am a bit new in Ubuntu, I installed it a week ago and I have some things more or less set but I am struggling with a couple things, if somebody kindly helpme.
- I have installed
chromium-browser
which I like more thanfirefox
because of I think it is faster, but in my University's virtual room
they have some PDF files uploaded andchromium-browser
won't open
them directly online, it forces to download, I have installed flash
player because of I wasn't able to view youtube videos but is there
another plugin or component which allow me to open pdf files without
downloading? thank you - Additional to that minor problem, when I want to download something
in direct download, I haven't tried torrent but I don't want such
solution, is there a way to download the files faster without using
any software for that task? I mean: setting up something in the
software. All I find are programs. Thank you
Cheers.
Best Answer
First of all, Welcome to AskUbuntu. And I suggest you to make just one question at once in order to receive the proper support, preferably in English. If you write in Spanish the answers to your question may delay until somebody translate your question.
I can partially answer your question specifically in the first point, related to your issue with the PDF Files and Chromium Browser.
Chromium Browser does not have an embedded PDF reader as Google Chrome does. That's why you won't be able to do anything in order to read your online PDF's directly on the browser and you are forced to download them insted.
You can -anyway- try to install Google Chrome, and copy the respective Google Chrome plugins to your current Chromium Browser in order to make Chromium able to open PDF's directly by following the steps provided in this previous answer by @shaneonabike, please note that in the comments @DanielHershcovich mentions that it will be better if you make a symbolic link to the plugins instead of copying, but this will be useful if you plan to keep both Google Chrome and Chromium Browser. If you plan to uninstall Google Chrome, you may wish to run the steps as mentioned by @shaneonabike, reproduced here for your convenience:
I must warn you that Google Chrome and its plugins are non-free software, but this workaround seems not to be harmful at all. (Tested by me).
As of your second question I can't provide you with any solution but I suggest you to open a new question about it in order to receive the proper support from other users.
Good luck!