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Give the real URL and note that it is a PDF in the title!

Agreed. Personally I much prefer Google's viewer to scribd (no flash!) but I’d still rather a link to the original pdf. I can (and do) add my own Google viewer links in with greasemonkey ( http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~murray/code/#googleviewer ).

Sorry, I was just passing the link along as it was passed to me. I have no objection to someone else reposting it or to a moderator modifying the link here.

I would never have noticed. I've been using the Chrome extension to open PDFs in Google docs for weeks now. Chrome is now my preferred PDF reader. It is fast, usable, and lives where I live: in my browser.

Where do I find this plugin? A quick search doesn't find any useful results.

Maybe he meant: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nnbmlagghjjcbdhg... ? For me that’s the top hit at http://www.google.com/search?q=chrome+extension+pdf

The greasemonkey script I linked above behaves a bit differently, but also works in Chrome.

Yup, that's it.