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Disabling Adobe Reader X Plug-In

I have always enjoyed Safari's ability to open PDFs natively without requiring a plug-in. I recently installed Abobe Reader X, and now it is the default plug-in for PDFs. I have tried to disable this in Reader's preferences, but the checkbox is grayed out. Is there a preference, or Terminal trick I can use, or should I downgrade my version of Reader back to 9.4?

iMac Early 2008 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro Mid 2010, Mac OS X (10.6.4), MacBook Pro Mid 2010 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on Nov 24, 2010 5:41 PM

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illed

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22 points

Jun 21, 2012 9:07 AM in response to 10kylelaker

How can the Adobe Reader be disabled in Safari for Windows? I tried the options provided by Reader, but no effect. PDFs still open from within Safari using the Reader plug-in. I can see the plugin installed in Safari, but no way to remove it.

flaroche

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20 points

Nov 17, 2012 11:22 AM in response to 10kylelaker

Thx Carolyn Samit & RichardF. Problem solved! 😉

I hate it when software do stuff automaticcaly without warnoing. Bad Adobe, bad. 😠

May 17, 2013 2:15 AM in response to RichardF

Hi there,

i know that answering to your issue after 2 years may sound like a joke but i heave the answer because i just experienced the same problem.

So even if i'am sure that you already fixed your problem, i post my solution for other people that may have problems in future 🙂 .

Just one right click on our PDF file, go to "Get info" and on the "open with" option choose "Perview" and than click on "Modify all".

Hope it was useful and sorry 4 my english.

The voices may not be correct because i'm italian and my Mac is in italian language, but i hope you can understand.

Cheers!

Aug 25, 2014 7:04 PM in response to Daniela0407

This didn't work for me, unfortunately, Daniela. My pdf has a message saying the following: Please wait...If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of this document, your pdf viewer may not be able to display this type of document.

I'm desperate!!!

Disabling Adobe Reader X Plug-In