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Hijack's Safari's handling of PDFs

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Contributed by: domo Sunday, June 04 2006 @ 12:20 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

Beware. Without asking, the installer puts in place /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/AdobePDFViewer.plugin, which overrides Safari's default behaviour of using WebKit to display PDFs. To restore the behaviour, trash the plugin and relaunch Safari.

Low marks for this reason.   

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Hijack's Safari's handling of PDFs - gslusher

Check earlier comments. This is hardly new--it's been going on for years.

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Tuesday, June 06 2006 @ 01:13 AM PDT


Hijack's Safari's handling of PDFs - RugbyRef

Nonetheless, it was a tip, since I was not aware of this issue (not having used Acrobat Reader for awhile).

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Sunday, July 09 2006 @ 03:40 PM PDT


Hijack's Safari's handling of PDFs - RugbyRef

Nonetheless, it was a tip, since I was not aware of this issue (not having used Acrobat Reader for awhile).

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Sunday, July 09 2006 @ 03:43 PM PDT


Hijack's Safari's handling of PDFs - broohaha1

Nonetheless, it was a tip, since I was not aware of this issue (not having used Acrobat Reader for awhile).

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Sunday, July 09 2006 @ 03:44 PM PDT


Hijack's Safari's handling of PDFs - ralph44

I downloaded Reader 7, but quickly deleted it b/c it sucks. Unfortunately, Safari wouldn't load PDF's b/c it was still referencing the plugins, but after I deleted it I can view PDFs in Safari again.. Thanks for the tip!

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Wednesday, July 12 2006 @ 11:39 PM PDT


Hijack's Safari's handling of PDFs - Brad3456

This cured my problem on my G4 PowerPC tower, which was that Safari 2.0.4 would display only a blank page when I clicked a .pdf link. Now that the library plugin is gone, Reader 7.0.8 works.
Odd. I did not have the problem with Reader 7.0.8 on my G4 laptop running the same version of Safari and Reader.

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Saturday, November 04 2006 @ 07:37 AM PST