Free browser extension

Your PDF tools, one click away

Open any PDFBEAR tool without hunting through bookmarks. Search every tool, pin favorites, return to recent workflows, or send the page you are viewing to HTML to PDF.

Download for Chrome, Edge & Brave Firefox testing build Install instructions

Version 1.0.0 13 KB No account required

Less searching, faster PDF work

The extension is a lightweight launcher. Your files never pass through the extension; you choose them on the normal PDFBEAR page where the workflow, privacy controls and results are visible.

Eight quick actions

Compress, merge, split, convert, edit, sign and protect PDFs from the popup.

Search every tool

Find all 55 PDFBEAR tools by task, format or name.

Favorites and recent tools

Pin frequent workflows and return to recently opened tools. This list stays in your browser.

Current page to PDF

Send the current page URL to HTML to PDF, review it, then choose the conversion options.

Right-click shortcut

Turn a page—or a linked page—into a PDF from the browser context menu.

Minimal permissions

No broad host access, content scripts, browsing-history permission, remote code or telemetry.

Install in about one minute

The first release is a direct download while store review is pending. Keep the unzipped folder in a permanent location after installing it.

Chrome, Edge or Brave

Download the Chrome packageUse the blue download button above, then unzip the downloaded file.
Open the extensions pageVisit chrome://extensions. In Edge use edge://extensions; in Brave use brave://extensions.
Turn on Developer modeUse the switch near the top-right of the extensions page.
Choose Load unpackedSelect the unzipped folder—the folder containing manifest.json.
Pin PDFBEAROpen the puzzle-piece menu and pin PDFBEAR for one-click access.

Firefox testing

Download the Firefox packageKeep the ZIP file; Firefox can load its manifest directly for testing.
Open Firefox debuggingVisit about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox.
Load the temporary add-onChoose the downloaded ZIP, or unzip it and select manifest.json.
Open the toolbar buttonUse PDFBEAR immediately, then pin it from the extensions menu if needed.

Firefox note: temporary add-ons are removed when Firefox restarts. Permanent Firefox installation requires the signed addons.mozilla.org release.

Privacy you can verify

The permission list is deliberately short, and the downloadable package contains readable source code.

activeTabReads only the current tab's title and URL after you open the popup, so “Turn into PDF” can work.
storageKeeps favorites and recent-tool choices locally in your browser.
contextMenusAdds the optional page-to-PDF right-click shortcuts.

What it does not request

No access to every website, downloads, cookies, browsing history, clipboard, camera, microphone or document contents. It does not run scripts inside pages. It makes no background network requests and sends no analytics events. Opening a PDFBEAR tool behaves like opening the same page from a bookmark.

Read PDFBEAR's Privacy Policy or visit the Trust Center.

Verify the downloaded files with SHA-256

Chrome / Edge / Brave92b71ca6083ce4b0e0893254126459f5d7ccc7932d11ba5c108ec3a1c74cc277

Firefox5228d19a9215456040bebfbe0bdf42cce3c8adf499f143eb71a7d2ff330336b3

The same machine-readable values are available at version.json.

Browser extension help

Why does installation use Developer mode?

This first release is distributed directly from PDFBEAR while store review is pending. Chromium browsers require Developer mode for an unpacked extension. A store release will replace this with normal one-click installation and automatic updates.

Can the extension read my PDF files?

No. It has no permission to read local documents. When you choose a tool, it opens the normal PDFBEAR HTTPS page, where you deliberately select the file to upload.

How does “Turn into PDF” work?

The extension places the current public http or https URL into PDFBEAR's HTML-to-PDF tool. You review that URL and press Add before anything is processed. Private pages behind a login may not be accessible to the converter.

Will it update automatically?

Direct-download builds do not silently replace themselves. Return to this page for new releases. Automatic updates will arrive with the browser-store versions.