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What's newsworthy about this? It seems like this is a bug in Chrome 56, the current beta version (not stable), in a non-default configuration (the built-in PDF plugin disabled), and the Chrome team is treating it as a bug because it's been assigned to someone to work on. What am I missing?

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I assume someone didn't think their problem wasn't getting enough attention, social media to the rescue!

Maybe i'm not following but if you disable the plugin, and tell it not not automatically open the pdf it still just opens it in the native reader. Any exploits in the document will run.

Assuming i am not misunderstanding the issue that's a pretty big deal.

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