Click the Enable or Disable button (it toggles depending on the status of the selected add-on): Enable sets the Adobe PDF Reader add-on to open PDFs in the browser. Disable turns off the add-on so it does not open PDFs in the browser. Select Adobe PDF Reader, and click the Enable/Disable button. Use Acrobat or Adobe Reader as a helper application. Then, when you select a PDF file in Internet Explorer (or whatever browser you are using), the browser opens the PDF file in an Acrobat window instead of the browser. Solution 2 – disable opening PDF files in the browser Open Adobe Acrobat. Click on the ‘Edit’ menu then ‘Preferences’. Click on ‘Internet’ on the side bar. Under ‘Web Browser Options’ untick ‘Display PDF in browser’. Click ‘OK’ to save the changes. Microsoft Internet Explorer: Be default, Internet Explorer opens PDF files in the Internet Explorer browser window. To disable this and have PDF files open in your PDF reader program (Adobe Reader or other), follow the steps below: Open Internet Explorer. Click the Internet Explorer Tools button and select Manage add-ons. Open PDF file in Adobe Reader without Opening in Chrome – Using Plugin To make this work, you should not enable the feature to download the PDF file we did in step 5. Once it is enabled, this method will not work.
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Lately when I download a PDF in Chrome and click the downloaded file in the bar at the bottom, it opens in chrome. I would like it to open in adobe as default, since I download mostly files with comments or stuff Chrome doesn't support anyway. I have seen this, but it makes chrome download all files and open them in Adobe.
So what I want is: if I click a random PDF, it should open in the chrome browser, if I click a downloaded file from the bar at the bottom or from
Steven M. Vascellarochrome://downloads
it should open the file in Adobe. (Just as it used to be two weeks ago). Is that still possible?5,4102222 gold badges6262 silver badges111111 bronze badges
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FYI for others: if you're okay with the Chrome PDF viewer, but want only downloaded PDFs to open in your external PDF viewer (Adobe Acrobat, Foxit Reader, etc.), you don't need to disable the Chrome PDF Viewer.
Always open PDFs using your system's viewer
Simply click the arrow next to a PDF download and select the option to use the system viewer.
Turn off auto-open of PDFs in the system viewer
UPDATE 6/7/2017
As of Chrome version 59, the option below doesn't exist in Settings. I'll leave these instructions, because if they ever add it back it'll probably be in the same place.
- Click on the
Chrome Menu
icon - Click on
- Scroll down and click
- Scroll down to Downloads. If you have enabled any file types to open using the system viewer, you'll see a button to Clear auto-opening settings. Clicking this will reset the settings for all file types.
More info
Relevant SuperUser discussion here: How to automatically open 'saved' pdfs in system viewer on chrome?
Jake BathmanJake Bathman
You should try this:
- Open Chrome.
- Type
chrome://plugins/
in the address bar, hit enter. - Browse the list for Adobe PDF viewer or Adobe reader (and chrome pdf viewer)
- Disable both (although disabling adobe reader would work alone.)
Hope this helps.
SandmanSandman
In Chrome, type
Find the Chrome PDF Viewer and click Disable
From your browser, click a PDF file; it should show at the bottom as a downloaded file.
Click the arrow next to the downloaded file, and choose Always open files of this type(You may need to manually click Open on any recent files you want to view, otherwise...)
The next time you click a PDF file, it should open however your computer is configured to open PDF files. If that method is via Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat (standard, pro), then that should meet the need you expressed in your question.
chrome://plugins/
Find the Chrome PDF Viewer and click Disable
From your browser, click a PDF file; it should show at the bottom as a downloaded file.
Click the arrow next to the downloaded file, and choose Always open files of this type(You may need to manually click Open on any recent files you want to view, otherwise...)
The next time you click a PDF file, it should open however your computer is configured to open PDF files. If that method is via Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat (standard, pro), then that should meet the need you expressed in your question.
pedalerpedaler
This should solve the problem!
PS:
1- Instead of 1 & 2, you can navigate to: chrome://settings/content
2- You can click on the file name's small (upside) arrow in the 'Downloads bar' at the bottom, and, click on 'Always open with system viewer'. However, this works only for this downloaded file, not other downloads (it should be a bug though)!
3- After doing the above three steps, when you click on a file in the download bar, it first opens another tab and closes it quickly (another bug, which is a little annoying)! But then opens the file in your PDF viewer anyway.
4- Previously you could control this from chrome://plugins which is now removed from Chrome (57 and later versions). So you just ignore what you found on the web about chrome://plugins.
Install Adobe Reader Plugin Internet Explorer
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