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Old December 8th 17, 04:25 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Keith Nuttle wrote:

I checked my applications and I do not have a application
entry

Portable Document Format

Even though I have several entries for Adobe Reader.


Try dragging and dropping a local PDF file
onto the open window of Firefox. With the settings
I showed, it should preview in Firefox.

You would probably have to make a custom file association,
to get File-Explorer-launched PDFs to end up in Firefox.

And it's not hard to do. Option 8 here. Note that
Windows likes to flip these back, so bookmark
this for later.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

Option Eight:

Right click Start, use Run box, enter:

control /name Microsoft.DefaultPrograms /page pageFileAssoc

Scroll down and look for PDF.

Select the entry. Look for an application to replace
Microsoft Edge, which is the current owner (if you don't
have Adobe Acrobat or a third-party reader). I had to
switch to looking in Program Files (x86) to find Firefox.
And I clicked on the firefox.exe when in there.

If it worked, when you go back to a File Explorer window,
all your PDF files will have a Firefox Icon (which isn't
very cool, but... whatever).

And note that the URL "about:config" can show you whether
the in-box PDF handler is enabled or not. It can be
disabled in about:config, if you've been screwing around
before with this for some reason. So if it still doesn't
work, check the Configuration Editor in Firefox.

I think PDF has to be in the file extension list, in
order that Microsoft Edge can "hog it". So I cannot
see Microsoft removing it entirely from the extension
list. Because they're pretty proud of themselves
adding a PDF viewer to Microsoft Edge. (The so-called
TwinUI viewing option, that steals the PDF from
Firefox :-) )

As a user, the complexity of this issue, hints that
you're a victim of software companies at war with one
another. And all these "petty stealing things" are
part of that. These tools don't all need PDF viewers,
and they could have put a separate application to
view PDFs if they wanted. And actually done a good
job.

Paul
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