# How do I get google Chrome to open html files directly instead of downloading?

**URL:** <https://discuss.codelibs.org/t/how-do-i-get-google-chrome-to-open-html-files-directly-instead-of-downloading/392>\
**Category:** English:Fess\
**Created:** [January 21, 2019, 6:25am UTC](https://discuss.codelibs.org/t/how-do-i-get-google-chrome-to-open-html-files-directly-instead-of-downloading/392 "2019-01-21T06:25:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/user_avatar/discuss.codelibs.org/discuss/32/298_2.png) [@discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/u/discuss)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 6:25am UTC](https://discuss.codelibs.org/t/how-do-i-get-google-chrome-to-open-html-files-directly-instead-of-downloading/392/1 "2019-01-21T06:25:35Z")

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(from [github.com/bksliu](http://github.com/bksliu))  
File Crawling Configuration  
Paths | file:////192.168.0.149/fileserver/

after searching on google browser, the **html file** will need to download instead of open directly as pdf file., how to fix this?? is there anything be config in Path Mapping??

thanks

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**Author:** ![discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/user_avatar/discuss.codelibs.org/discuss/32/298_2.png) [@discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/u/discuss)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.codelibs.org/t/how-do-i-get-google-chrome-to-open-html-files-directly-instead-of-downloading/392/2 "2019-01-21T13:55:09Z")

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(from [github.com/marevol](http://github.com/marevol))  
See [https://github.com/codelibs/fess/issues/1651#issuecomment-389654553](https://github.com/codelibs/fess/issues/1651#issuecomment-389654553)

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**Author:** ![discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/user_avatar/discuss.codelibs.org/discuss/32/298_2.png) [@discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/u/discuss)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2019, 3:32am UTC](https://discuss.codelibs.org/t/how-do-i-get-google-chrome-to-open-html-files-directly-instead-of-downloading/392/3 "2019-01-22T03:32:30Z")

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(from [github.com/bksliu](http://github.com/bksliu))  
thanks
