Firefox won't stop using Adobe Acrobat for PDFs

[Jeff7]

I grudgingly installed Adobe's reader, as Foxit's scrolling speed is sluggish by comparison - it takes a much longer time to render each page than Acrobat does, and I needed to quickly scroll through a long document looking for a specific image. Foxit's long rendering times really slowed it down, so I put Acrobat on the system.
Now Firefox always uses Acrobat to open PDFs in the browser; before I'd have it ask every time, and then Foxit was the default PDF reader.
Problem is, I can't get Firefox to go back to its old way of handling PDFs.


What I've already done:
- In Firefox, Tools -> Options -> Applications
The first three items are Adobe Acrobat related. All are set to Always Ask.
- The "PDF Document" entry is also set to Always Ask.

Within Acrobat, Edit -> Preferences -> Internet.
"Display PDF in browser" is unchecked, as are all other options on the Internet page there.

Despite all that, clicking a PDF link fires up Acrobat reader, in the browser window, which promptly locks up Firefox until I terminate the AcroRd32.exe process. Then I just get an empty tab.

Firefox 3.6.17
Acrobat 10.0.1

(On another note, if anyone knows a way of making Foxit's reader begin rendering or pre-rendering pages faster, let me know. Then I can get rid of Adobe's crap. I notice that Acrobat will do a fast low-res rendering, and then take more time to do the full-res render. Foxit seems to do the full-res render exclusively, displaying nothing until it's finished.)

 

[Nothinman]

Disable the Acrobat FF plugin?

 

[Fardringle]

If opening a PDF link with Acrobat Reader locks up Firefox, I'd say there's more wrong than just a simple file association...

 

[gsaldivar]

I'd start by reinstalling both Adobe Reader and Firefox. If the problem persists, either disable all your FF add-ons, or create a new profile and see if that helps. Good luck.

 

[Dahak]

Actually, I have had that happen too if adobe opens the pdf in the browser it will cause the browser to hang, I have not found any reason other than adobe itself. if you wait it will be fine. Same thing in IE

I got tired of trying to figure it out too so I started to use an addon called Link Alert that tells me what the link is and try to save the link instead of opening it

You can also should check the windows file association too, in mine for the pdf document it shows the foxit icon as my default reader is foxit

 

[Jeff7]

Disable the Acrobat FF plugin?

Firefox shows no Adobe extensions.

.....oooh, ok. I didn't even know there was a Plugins section of the Add-ons. :$
I had always thought that "Add-ons" was a reword of "Extensions." Looks like Extensions are just a subsection of Add-Ons, with Plugins also in there.

I'll give that a shot when I get home.

 

[Nothinman]

Firefox shows no Adobe extensions.

.....oooh, ok. I didn't even know there was a Plugins section of the Add-ons. :$
I had always thought that "Add-ons" was a reword of "Extensions." Looks like Extensions are just a subsection of Add-Ons, with Plugins also in there.

I'll give that a shot when I get home.

Plugins are essentially shared libraries that the browser loads at runtime and uses for integrated stuff like Flash, Java, etc. Extensions/Add-ons are completely different and are usually not compiled objects.

Aboutlugins lists all of the currently loaded plugins in a browser these days.