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Adobe Reader Hijacks Preview as Safari's Default PDF Viewer

Installing the latest Adobe Reader causes Preview to be overwritten by Reader as the default PDF reader in Safari. There's a setting in Adobe Reader prefs that should aloow one to change the setting, but it is greyed out. Thanks Adobe! You'll need to go to your HD/Library/Internet Plug-in folder and remove the Adobe plug-ins. Quit and restart Safari, then Preview is default again.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Posted on Apr 18, 2012 11:28 AM

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Feb 12, 2013 3:41 AM in response to Bruce Kieffer

Thanks very much for your post Bruce.

I was sick of adobe reader always bugging me with updates when i didn't use it so i killed it with appzapper thinking that would be that. However the two plug-ins in the library/internet plug-ins folder were still there and instead of defaulting back to preview i just got a message to reinstal adobe.


After finding your post, I deleted the adobe plug-ins and preview is back and hopefully all remnants of adobe reader are gone.


Much appreciated

Jul 1, 2013 5:03 AM in response to Bruce Kieffer

I have removed these plugins, but then they appear again. I notice that I cannot right click a PDF in Safari and "Open in Preview". They must get installed for each update?


So I had to remove Adobe Reader since they are changing settings. This has gone on long enough that they have had time to fix it in an update. So I must assume that it is intentional.

Adobe Reader Hijacks Preview as Safari's Default PDF Viewer

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