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If you're doing this from a Chromebook, Google Drive is mounted in 'Files', so you can just navigate to the pdf file from there, double click on it, and it will open in Chrome directly.
An alternative (because sometimes 'Files' takes a while to update from Google Drive), is to open Drive & mis-use the Print feature per ARM32's answer.
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