Multiple Users on same version of Chrome (Version 35.0.1916.153 m) with Chrome PDF Viewer enabled report different outcomes for same PDF from same sites. Example:
http://www.rethinkwood.com/
User 1: Can open all 10 Case Study PDF’s in browser
User 2: Cannot open first seven PDF’s (which are links to an external WordPress site – http://www.woodworks.org). They hang with the ‘loading’ message noted in first post in this thread. Can view last 3 that are internal to the site.
This is not a difference in the PDF’s themselves. Saving a PDF from rethinkwood and then uploading and calling it directly from woodworks, user 2 sees the same hanging loading message.
Same issue going directly to woodworks site. Example PDF:
http://www.woodworks.org/publications-media/case-studies/
User 1 can view inline by clicking title
User 2 gets hanging message
So, I think this is actually a wordpress issue in some way.
