![]() Suggests you set individual file types to default to FireFox, but I had already had those set anyway. Note that Mozilla's own useful KB article: Like contributors here, I found that neither method worked. Various other forums too suggest that it's just a matter of using Start | Set Program Access and Defaults, and choosing "Use default browser" or forcing Firefox to be the default. It also seems to have been a problem for long time going back to early versions of Mozilla Firefox 1.06. Last year Adobe's own tech note declared it "a rare problem and there is no known solution":Īnd the problems continue in relation to Vista : The fact that URL links from within Adobe Reader always launch Internet Explorer instead of the default browser, say Firefox, seems be a common problem from within the Reader, and from within the Help (Google "Adobe Reader default browser"). I don't link things messing with my registry uninvited. It's really annoying because IE attempts to modify the registry each time it In a PDF still invokes IE, even though that is clearly not my "default browser",Īnyone know how to disable IE as the "default browser" in Acrobat 7 on XP? Way it was before I played with that button. However, Dimitri's suggestion *did* work to reset this panel back to the Once clicked, the button is grey and there is no way in Acrobat 7 to unselect it.Īnd clicking CANCEL on each panel all the way to the top and killing AcrobatĪlso did not undo that change! On reopen of Acrobat, IE remained set. *assumed* that a widget would appear to let me UNDO that change. On a lark I clicked the "MakeDefault" button, hoping that a newĪlternative widget would appear to let me set a different browser - and I There was no button or select anywhere to change to a differentĭefault. The "make IE the default" was NOT checked and the "MakeDefault" button The browser that Acrobat 7 chooses when a link is clicked in a PDF.Įdit/Preferences/Internet/InternetSettings/Programs Settings for at least 2 years on my XP system. If you still can't open a PDF in Chrome, you can try clearing cached data in the browser or reset all settings of the browser.I, too, tried to disable IE as the default browser using Dimitri's suggestion,Įven though Firefox has been my system default Browser for. ![]() If you still want to open PDF in Chrome, right click the file, click Open with and select Chrome as the program to open the PDF file. If your computer has a default PDF viewer, the file won't open in Chrome by default. In that case, you might need an advanced PDF viewer and editor and the built-in one might not prove to be useful. You want to edit and work on the PDF files that you want to open and not just access the basic options. Other than a poor internet connection, the problem might arise due to conflicting third-party extensions. ![]() Hence, it will result in a black screen like the one you see at the time of the 'loading' phase. ![]() You might have different instances of weird-looking text, missing images, or lagging scrolling on certain PDF documents you open.Īnother problem that might arise with an in-built Chrome PDF viewer is that it fails to display PDFs. Render problems might start to show up in the built-in browser PDF reader of Chrome at some point or the other. Here we are going to take a look at these drawbacks. There are a few drawbacks of opening PDFs in Chrome. Related Questions about Opening PDF in Browsers What are the drawbacks of opening PDFs in Chrome
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