Safari Adobe Reader plugin

For Safari, try removing the adobe pdf plugins.

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin

If you are not using Safari the above will work for other browsers too, although in FireFox, you could just disable the use of those plugins from within Firefox (Tools menu --> AddOns --> Plugins).

Hi..

There are two libraries. You might be looking in the wrong one.

Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar top of your screen click Go > Go to Folder

Type this exactly as you see it here: ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins

Move the Adobe PDF browser plugin (or just PDF browser plugin) from the Internet Plug-Ins folder to the Trash.

Quit then relaunch Safari to test.

Safari will automatically revert to using Preview reader, which comes with Safari and is not a plugin, to read PDFs and other such files. Having a plugin simply overrides Preview, and runs the PDF through the plugin instead.

Hope this helps.

(This is a followup question from a thread that is nearly two years old regarding using Adobe Reader to view pdfs in Safari, but I'm hoping that won't affect your ability to answer.)

I downloaded Adobe Reader a few months ago so I could do editing on pdfs for a project. Once I did that, on both my MacBook and iMac, Adobe Reader became the software that Safari is using to read pdfs. The qualifty of rendered pdfs is not as good as Preview.

You provided instructions to remove the Adobe Reader plug in. If I do that, I presume that will not disable Adobe Reader as a standalone program?

Thank you.

dcwarner

wilmington, de

I'm so sorry. I gave you the wrong path. My fault.

Should be: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins

(no ~ Tilde character before the first forward slash)

Hi Juan ..

You don't need that plugin to view PDF files.