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Adobe makes some amazing Windows applications, but am I the only one who would like web-hosted PDFs to open outside the browser?

After a quick search, I found the simple solution (for v6.0 at least)

While you're at it, you may want to set auto-update to manual (under Updates) and disable the splash screen (under Startup).

Doesn't that feel better?

FYI: This works great for IE. I couldn't figure out how to get the setting to stick for Mozilla.

I hope to figure out how this works for Office documents next.

Comments

Anonymous
October 27, 2004
Yeah, it's really annoying isn't it? Especially since many features in the stand-alone client are disabled when opened in the browser.

Another great tip I found for Acrobat is diabling all the plugins to make it load faster, see: http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/archive/2003/10/06/2095.aspx

For office documents, see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q178222
Anonymous
October 27, 2004
Thanks Dean. I've been using Kevin's and your suggestions regarding Acrobat Reader. Your link for doing the same to Word docs was of great help!
Anonymous
October 29, 2004
You should read Omar's blog. Ex-MacBU people are smart:

http://www.shahine.com/omar/PermaLink,guid,b6d6cdba-4b86-439a-a373-8a1cb8a58bca.aspx
Anonymous
October 03, 2006
Like most other techies, whenever I install Adobe’s Acrobat Reader I also uninstall most of the pointless
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