Select a Chrome HTML file that you know is actually a PDF file. Right-click on the file and select Properties. Next to "Opens with," you may see Google Chrome listed.

Open Local Files on Chrome. Let us talk about the most popular and loved browser, Google Chrome. Opening a Local File on Chrome is quite simple, you just have to open a New Tab, hit Ctrl+O, go to ...

Creating a new file, whether Docs, Slides, Sheets, or Forms, in Chrome is easy, if you know the proper URL shortcuts. Let's dig into those.

To do this, click the three-dot menu at the top right and open Settings, then navigate to You and Google in the sidebar. Click Sign in to Chrome and follow the prompts.

Instead of opening Google Docs directly in your browser, you can click on a shortcut on your taskbar or desktop and open the app that way. To do this, open Google Chrome and go to docs.google.com .