Some mobile platforms with support for these standard Web browsers may also have support for these CDF files. Just drag the file onto this browser window and drop it. You can also display a CDF file directly in the browser. Then click 'Open with' and choose an application. This plug-in software also has versions for Linux and Mac systems. If you cannot open your CDF file correctly, try to right-click or long-press the file. The Wolfram CDF Player plug-in software can also be installed in a Microsoft Windows-based system to implement support into standard Web browsers for opening and viewing the content of these CDF files. Microsoft Windows-based systems with this software can also view the content of these CDF files for further editing, and there are CDF Player versions provided by Wolfram Research for Linux and Mac platforms. Files appended with the CDF extension can be created, opened and accessed using the CDF Player software. These multimedia elements are mostly visual objects like charts and graphs that can also be integrated with interactive functionalities, which can be done through features provided by the CDF Player software.

cdf extension stands for computable document format, and this file format was developed by Wolfram Research as a multimedia encoding standard of interactive documents that can contain different text formatting attributes and multimedia elements.

How to view .cdf files