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How to Remove Adobe PDF Viewer from Safari

Entry published feb 02 2006

Somehow I managed to install Adobe’s PDF Viewer as a web plugin. Now Safari no longer uses it’s built-in PDF viewer which is significantly faster that Adobe’s plugin. If you run into a similar situation here is how to remove the plugin:

Delete the file AdobePDFViewer.plugin from the folder /Library/Internet Plug-ins

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comments

RD, 1 year, 4 months ago:

Thanks for this tip. It’s not that you managed to install it - it’s that Adobe’s user abusing update manager installed it behind your back after you declined it the first time around. At least that’s what happened to me.

Adobe pretty much hate their users.

Daniel, 1 year ago:

Thank you! I don’t know why it took me so long to do this, but my life has been vastly improved.

Scott, 10 months, 2 weeks ago:

Stumbled onto this after I let Adobe’s CS4 updater install its plug-in. Grateful for the advice!

Bill, 3 months, 4 weeks ago:

Thank you: my browsing life is no longer quite so miserable.