Disable Adobe Acrobat Opening PDFs in Safari

April 8, 2007 - 12:10am

After I installed Adobe Acrobat on my Mac, it overwrote the PDF preference for Safari and became the default application to open all PDFs within the browser. This is a pain becase Acrobat is a resource hog, slow, and more likely to crash than Preview.app. It took me awhile to trace down how to restore the default functionality since it's not in Safari preferences as one would think.

It's actually in Adobe Acrobat. Open Acrobat and choose _Acrobat > Preferences_ and select the _Internet_ catagory. Uncheck all the boxes as shown above and restart your web browser. Once again Preview.app is happliy opening PDFs within Safari! This has been tested on Acrobat 7 and OS X.

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Disable Adobe Acrobat

Created by Henry Aronson (not verified) on April 25, 2007 - 11:16am.

Thanks a million for solving this problem for me. The Adobe thing was really bugging me, and I couldn't find the solution anywhere -- it's totally counterintuitive!

Henry Aronson

Sneaky as!

Created by Amit Karmakar (not verified) on May 23, 2007 - 11:21pm.

Been wondering the same since installing Acrobat 9! Sneaky as. Thanks for the heads up. Nothing beats the speed of Preview or PDF View!

Thanks!

Created by Dot (not verified) on June 24, 2007 - 6:13pm.

You rock. My websurfing is peaceful again (no more cursing as I waited for the .pdfs to load). Thanks!

grayed out...

Created by pnelson (not verified) on November 12, 2007 - 11:04am.

Any thoughts on what would cause the two top boxes to be grayed out. I am trying to turn it off but can't. Thanks.

pnelson

you have to be in an

Created by anonymous (not verified) on December 3, 2007 - 12:23am.

you have to be in an administrator account to do this, otherwise the boxes are grayed out.

Thanks

Created by Galen (not verified) on January 16, 2008 - 11:18pm.

Very helpful. Stupid Adobe hiding stuff like that.

Thank you!

Created by Tom Mornini (not verified) on May 29, 2008 - 1:00am.

Very cool. Saved me a lot of time!

Simple way

Created by anonymous (not verified) on June 3, 2008 - 11:28pm.

Go to Library folder ( not user library ) and inside Internet PlugIns just delete the adobe PDF plugin and restart your Safari. Thats all.

Warning

Created by matt westgate on June 6, 2008 - 5:20pm.

This well permanently delete the pulgin. If you never want this option again by all means seek and destroy. Just remember kids: god forgives, adobe doesn't. (uhm)

Thanks!

Created by anonymous (not verified) on October 17, 2008 - 7:03pm.

Thanks! I really HATE acrobat for doing that. It is such a pig...

Thanks for that, oh and

Created by anonymous (not verified) on December 15, 2008 - 2:10pm.

Thanks for that, oh and remember to restart Safari folks

Adobe

Created by anonymous (not verified) on March 28, 2009 - 8:00pm.

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!

I was getting sick of Adobe taking over every time. I only have it for college books that require it, otherwise it'd be gone.

For some reason the top two

Created by anonymous (not verified) on June 24, 2009 - 7:52am.

For some reason the top two check boxes are greyed out on OS X 10.5.7 with Acrobat 8 Professional. So the only option seems to be to manually remove the plugin.