I happen to also have it on this machine to make it a little easier, but I want it not to be “SAVE.” I want it to be “APP:” space, paste. I happen to have the path already opened up here, so “AcroRD32.exe.” I’ve got this path here. The idea is that for any extension type – “.pdf,” “.zip,” “.rar” or whatever you want – you can either have it automatically “SAVE” or you can have it open up an “APP” or you can have it “ASK.”įor instance, in PDF land I want to open up Acrobat Reader. Sorry my screen is kind of cut off here at the bottom, but you get the general gist. Our latest Pak has a tab in it called “Applications,” and it’s easy enough to use. Then I will go to computer side, “PolicyPak/Application Settings Manager.” Right click, “New Application” and go to “PolicyPak for Mozilla Firefox 23.0.” Inside our Pak for Firefox, let me go ahead and “Create a GPO in this domain, and link it here” and call it “FF open PDFs in Acro.” I’m linking it over to my “Sales” dudes. So how do we train Firefox to open up PDFs in “Adobe Reader?” In my case it’s 11, but you could be using DC. In fact, if you click this, what happens? This is Edge that will show up by default which is probably not what you want either in Windows 10. They could learn how to click on “Open With Different Viewer.” Maybe you do, maybe you don’t have Acrobat set here as a PDF viewer which is kind of a huge pain in the neck. In this video, I’m going to show you how you can teach Acrobat Reader to be the default PDF viewer for Firefox.įor instance, let’s say your users go to a website that when they click on a PDF what does it do by default? It’s going to open it up inside of Firefox itself, which is probably not what you want. PolicyPak: Change Firefox application handler (like PDF) to Adobe Reader See how to do it in this video (and also for any other extension type !) Most customers want to change this to an external PDF reader. 11: Change Firefox application handler (like PDF) to Adobe Readerįirefox always opens PDF files in it’s own internal viewer.

Opening pdf files in firefox