Hi - I am trying to stop acrobat automatically opening and embedding a pdf reader in firefox whenever I download a pdf. I can't for the life of me find a way to turn it off (short of editing a file called pluginreg.dat which clearly states "Do not edit").

I have tried the following:

about:config in firefox gives me no option to disable plugins of any kind (odd, as others report that that is where one does this kind of thing using plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types or some such, but nothing like that is there for me)

edit->preferences->applications is no help. it says "portable document format" should lead to an "always ask" question. clearly, this is being overridden

finally, disabling acrobat settings like "allow fast web view" does nothing.

Surely there is a way to do this?
-m

Remove the file for the plugin from your plugins directory? It's called something like nppdf.so, but about:plugins will give you the correct filename.

1. Go to FFx's Tools menu.
2. Click on the Add-ons menu item.
3. Click on Plugins
4. Highlight the pdf plugin
5. Click on "Disable"
Job done.
jdk

Dear jdkaye,
Done! That was embarrassingly easy (with emphasis now on the embarrassing).
thank you,
-m

Nah. You asked the right question and you got a solution. Nothing embarassing with that. I'm glad to have been of service. Keep on tuxin'
jdk