Stop opening PDF in my Safari

Could you please clarify this? What do you mean by the plugin? Do you mean Adobe's Acrobat Reader? You should be able to disable Acrobat from opening it.
If PDF files are automatically loading in Preview or Acrobat Reader, you can fix this in Safari by going to the Preferences (Safari>Preferences, or Command-,). Click the 'General' tab and un-check "Open 'safe' files after downloading". All files will download to your Desktop or wherever you choose to save them in. Note that this will stop music, video, picture, and other document files from automatically loading as well.

I just tried the terminal command from Macworld Nov. 05 Rob Griffiths' article. Just open a terminal window and enter

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitOmitPDFSupport -bool YES

Which didn't work for me but has for others, so I loaded OnyX but under the Safari Tab there isn't an option for pdf files. Is this because I am on 10.3.9 and OnyX 1.52 ?

Thanks for any help

Hey guys,

I too would like to disable this unbelievably annoying pain in the arse, but the "AdobePDFViewer.plugin" file is not on my computer. I checked the Internet Plug-ins folder in both Library folders (root and user) but the file is not there - I wonder if they changed something with the release of 10.4.3. I really really really HATE that Safari does this now, it was so much better when it would download PDFs and open them with preview, I don't know what they expect us to do with them open in a Safari window, totally pointless.

I'll try OynX, but am not a big fan of using 3rd party stuff, scares me a bit. I'd much happier if Apple would just put Safar back the way it used to be.

I also did not see a file called "AdobePDFViewer.plugin", but did see a file whose name contained "Adobe DLM" that I moved to trash. Upon moving to trash, it was called "AdobePDFViewer.plugin". I also went to Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard, internet and unchecked "Display in Browser Using". I checked back, and it didn't recheck itself.

Now, in situations where PDFs were set to automatically open, they don't. This allows the use of ctrl-click -> save linked file as, which makes my life a lot easier (can have several PDFs downloading in the background, can organize PDFs as I download them, can rename PDFs as I download them, doesn't cause spinning beach ball like opening PDFs in Safari).

I didn't do a check after each, so I don't know if either alone is sufficient.

Note that I had tried the terminal command suggestion earlier today, but it didn't work. I looked at the original MacOSXhints thread on this and someone posted that it didn't work after 10.4.2...



15 Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Download OnyX. It's a free 4.1MB utility, and one of its MANY MANY features is to allow you to not have Safari automatically open .pdf files.

Install it, open its 'Appearance' tab, click 'Safari', and there you have it. Remember, this utility is free. It's a must-have for any Mac OS X user, in my opinion.

You can control click or right click "download linked file", this saves the file to the desktop.
Default PDF reader is Preview, you don't need Acrobat

Solved my own problem
Removed the Adobe acrobat Viewer plugin located in
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin

The reading pdf or not option is in OnyX 1.6.4 for Tiger, but I do not know when it was added as I just recently started using this program.

MikeR--you are a genius! I've been struggling with this problem for months. Removed the Adobe acrobat viewer plugin, and downloaded files right to the desktop. Thank you!