Error opening PDF in a new tab in Chrome or Edge browser

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Last updated: May 18, 2023 by Andi MukaVersion comment
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Problem

ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT error occurs by clicking on PDF document title since Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge 86.x.

If you open a pdf document in a new tab of a Chromium-based browser like Chrome or Edge, you receive the following error message:

 

 

The behavior occurs on all PDF links in the SharePoint Online List and the SharePoint Document Macro. Your permissions to the document are not the cause of the error.

Solution

To open the PDF in a new tab, you have one of the following options:

  1. Copy the URL of the corrupted tab and paste it into a new tab.

  2. Right-click on the PDF link and click on “Open link in new tab“.

  3. Install an extension to read PDF documents in the browser and set this extension as the default PDF reader. If you now click on the PDF link, the extension will display the document in the new tab.

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