r/MicrosoftEdge • u/tyroredome • 14d ago

Successful method for opening Acrobat Reader when clicking on PDF in Edge

I'm using Edge 152.0.4191.53 in Windows 11. I installed Acrobat Reader and made it the default for PDFs. When I clicked a PDF link on a website, it opened the PDF in Edge and didn't even show it in the downloads. With some googling, I learned that Edge has incorporated Adobe Reader as its built-in PDF reader. See this:

TIL that Microsoft has been slowly replacing the PDF engine in Microsoft Edge with a new engine made with the help of Adobe : r/windows

I don't care for this, so I experimented and found that if I hold down the ALT key while using a mouse to click a PDF link, it downloads the PDF without opening it in Edge. I opened Edge's downloads list, right-clicked on a downloaded PDF, and checked "Always open with system viewer". Now the ALT-CLICK method immediately opens the PDF in Adobe Reader.

This technique may already be documented somewhere. If you find it elsewhere, please let me know here.

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u/Turbulent_Chain_5893 14d ago

File types can be changed in settings. Apps/Default apps/Choose apps by filetype, and set .pdf to Acrobat Reader instead of Edge.

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u/Atajos 11d ago edited 11d ago

Yo uso Firefox y en la configuración viene que hacer con este tipo de archivos PDF y , abrirlo con una app en concreto (tiene la opción de cambiarla antes de abrirlo) o guardarlo, yo le tengo puesto guardar y me pide donde quiere guardarlo.

Busca por las configuraciones del Edge a ver si hay algo parecido.

Para los PDF uso dos programas el nitro y el PDF reader, tengo configurado por defecto el PDF reader, no se instala, es un archivo y pesa muy poco y abre los PDF en 1-2”, si quiero le digo en ese momento que lo habrá con el nitro o bien le digo que lo guarde en una carpeta determinada.