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Firefox Opening pdf Files

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kathys826
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Hello, Sometime between Friday and today (Monday) Firefox has "hijacked" all of my pdf documents. I didn't ask for this and don't what this. I did find the setting that controls how Firefox handles downloads, it was set for open in Firefox, I switched to back always ask and restarted my laptop. All my existing files are still saved as Firefox HTML Documents. Additionally, when printing from the web files are still saving/printing as the Firefox HTML docs. How can I fix this?

Thank You, Kathy

Hello, Sometime between Friday and today (Monday) Firefox has "hijacked" all of my pdf documents. I didn't ask for this and don't what this. I did find the setting that controls how Firefox handles downloads, it was set for open in Firefox, I switched to back always ask and restarted my laptop. All my existing files are still saved as Firefox HTML Documents. Additionally, when printing from the web files are still saving/printing as the Firefox HTML docs. How can I fix this? Thank You, Kathy

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Hello, I continued to poke around for a fix & I found it, doesn't explain why this happened but this is what I did. Right click on any of the Firefox HTML docs, select open with, select Choose default program, select Adobe Acrobat then check box to apply this to all files.

Thanks To All The Support Volunteers!

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Chosen Solution

Hello, I continued to poke around for a fix & I found it, doesn't explain why this happened but this is what I did. Right click on any of the Firefox HTML docs, select open with, select Choose default program, select Adobe Acrobat then check box to apply this to all files.

Thanks To All The Support Volunteers!