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New version of Acrobat installed and Firefox does not open pdf's off a website

Greynomad99
Greynomad99
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Acrobat required a new version of Adobe to be installed yesterday and while it works in all other respects, selecting a pdf link on a web site does not open the pdf in a new window but saves the document to my Downloads folder on the PC. IE does not have this problem.

Acrobat required a new version of Adobe to be installed yesterday and while it works in all other respects, selecting a pdf link on a web site does not open the pdf in a new window but saves the document to my Downloads folder on the PC. IE does not have this problem.

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My last eMail from Adobe was July 10th. That's the last 'Security' Update from them according to their Website: Adobe. The 'Acrobat Reader DC' auto-updates itself (Continuous Release). Mine shows '2018.011.20055' as the most recent.

Look in Options / General / Applications.

Type PDF in the Applications Search Box.

You have 3 choices.

~Pj

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My last eMail from Adobe was July 10th. That's the last 'Security' Update from them according to their Website: Adobe. The 'Acrobat Reader DC' auto-updates itself (Continuous Release). Mine shows '2018.011.20055' as the most recent.

Look in Options / General / Applications.

Type PDF in the Applications Search Box.

You have 3 choices.

~Pj

Greynomad99
Greynomad99 Question owner
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Problem solved. The new version of Adobe changed the file association to download rather than open the file in a new window as it had previously been set.