I’m using Acrobat Pro 7.0.
The default browser on my system is Firefox. Whenever i click a link in a different application (Thunderbird, MS Word, etc.), it will automatically open in Firefox.
But, for some reason, when i click a link in Acrobat, it always fires up Internet Explorer, which is rather annoying. I assumed this was something that i could fix in Acrobat’s Preferences, but haven’t been able to find anything.
Can anyone help me with this?
I may have a solution, if not a direct answer to your question.
If all you are doing is onscreen viewing and printing, etc., try Foxit Reader , it loads my links in Firefox. As an added bonus, the app itself loads in milliseconds compared to the Adobe Acrobat Readers.
Thanks for the suggestion, Stan.
Problem is, i have a whole heap of pdf documents in a folder, and i like to be able to use the Acrobat search feature to search multipple documents from within Acrobat itself. That’s why i prefer not to open them using the browser plugin, but in Acrobat proper.
I’m not sure that Foxit Reader has the same capability.
One more bump, in case anyone can help.
I’m not certain, but I am pretty sure that the Foxit Reader doesn’t have the same capability. It’s so great because it’s so sleek — it doesn’t crash my computer at work like Acrobat so often does — but I don’t think it’s search function is nearly so good.
Have you tried looking in IE to see if there is an option to break up the association? I’ve had experiences where I have dueling programs for a particular file format and I’ve had to tell a program to not open the file, even though another program is set as the default. Maybe this is an analogous situation. Under Programs in the internet options is a check box having to do with IE checking to see if it’s the default program, maybe changing that will help.
Sorry I can’t be more helpful.