diff --git a/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/resources/web/js/common/components/ChromePDFBugFix.js b/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/resources/web/js/common/components/ChromePDFBugFix.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c1b70dd79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/resources/web/js/common/components/ChromePDFBugFix.js
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/*
+ * This function is a temporary fix
+ * for a bug with chrome.
+ * 
+ * bug-url: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=65395
+ * 
+ * bug-description: chrome PDF Viewer plugin shrinks PDF and entire surrounding page
+ * when including a pdf inside an iframe
+ * 
+ * bug-notes: this bug seems to be fixed since version 9.0.597.84 
+ * but we should keep this fix for a while to support people with
+ * older versions
+ * 
+ * */
+zk.afterLoad(function(){
+	old = zAu.cmd0.download;
+	zAu.cmd0.download = function(url){
+		if( ! url.match(/\.pdf$/) ){
+			return old.apply(url);
+		}
+		
+		window.open(url, "Report");
+	};
+});
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diff --git a/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/resources/web/js/common/components/zk.wpd b/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/resources/web/js/common/components/zk.wpd
index 995cff3f3..63e2dd90b 100644
--- a/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/resources/web/js/common/components/zk.wpd
+++ b/navalplanner-webapp/src/main/resources/web/js/common/components/zk.wpd
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 <package name="common.components" language="xul/html">
+    <script src="ChromePDFBugFix.js" browser="safari"/>
     <widget name="JasperreportComponent"/>
 </package>
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