Opening a local PDF file in Chrome

I'm running Chrome 8.0.552.18 on my computer now, under Windows 7, and I just clicked and dragged a PDF onto it, and it loaded it up no problem...

And no, it doesn't look like it's using Acrobat or Foxit, or another PDF reader... it looks like Chrome 8 does have its own PDF renderer.

I'm assuming you are on Windows. So, if your PDF is c:\some\path\some.pdf, simply use this URI in Chrome's address and search field:

 file:///C:/some/path/some.pdf

On Linux I'd expect this for /some/path/some.pdf to change to

 file:///some/path/some.pdf

(but have no chance to test this).