After some last Windows10 update the MSEdge was set as the default PDF files viewer. When I switch it back to Acrobat, it returns again as before. I tried it more times using the right mouse with checked option, in settings/default apps by file type, nothing helps. No option to see the Edge setting. Can it be set somehow?
OR – how to get rid completely that loutish sw? Normal way doesn’t work…
Thanks for any advice
Peter
A customer experienced a bug in the PDF implementation in Edge a few years ago (with Edge as their default browser, so they'd click on a PDF on a web page, and Edge would open it, then Edge hung) and the only workaround I could find was to use another browser.
However, that was with the old version of Edge before it became a clone of Chrome (and the icon changed from a blue 'e' to the blue circular swirly affair). Now there's an option in Edge's settings labelled 'always download PDF files', which I think may do what you want, provided you have another program set as your default PDF viewer.
However (again!), MS has a tendency to revert settings for 'their' browser if they don't like yours (a non-default home page is a regular example) when a big update comes in. It wouldn't surprise me if this was one of those settings.
I don't know what happens with this option set if one does a Windows search and maybe selects an online pdf file to view though. The online search behaviour of Windows search can be disabled though.
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