Chrome’s PDF viewer launched in Dec 2010[1] with v8.0.552. The release notes do note that a benefit of the built-in viewer is that it’s sandboxed. That’s fair

Chrome’s PDF viewer launched in Dec 2010[1] with v8.0.552. The release notes do note that a benefit of the built-in viewer is that it’s sandboxed. That’s fair enough, I guess — the Chrome team had a bee in their bonnet about plugins going all the way back to the Chrome launch comic[2]. Interestingly the Chrome team were using svn back then — that’s how long it’s been :-) [1] https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2010/12/stable-beta-channel-updates.html https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2010/12/stable-beta-ch... [2] https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_28.html https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_28.html