What does Firefox do with .pdf files?
Our department has started using "the cloud". In our office, we create drawings and maps in Microstation which are also made into .pdf files. It is the .pdf files that we share with clients. I was viewing a .pdf file we created recently and it was listed as a Firefox HTML document. Questions: Is Firefox actually changing our files? What if we sometimes need to have them behave exactly as an Adobe file is expected to behave? What if we need to download a .pdf file and put it on a CD to hand to someone? Will the client be coming back to us saying "What is this thing, I can't use it?" Can we expect these files to plot exactly as a .pdf would plot, and what would we need to do differently? Is there something printed up, or a document online, that would explain these things and tell us what normally happens, so that my supervisor (who has barely had a chance to look while this upgrade is happening) would understand it? btw I am NOT writing from work. thanks in advance
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hello, firefox registers as handler for pdf files when no other program on a pc has done so (so probably the acrobat installation is corrupted for that to have happened). that won't alter or change the files themselves at all, but firefox will become the default application to open pdf files on that computer.
in order to change that, go to acrobat reader 11 > edit > preferences > general & click on the default application option at the bottom? in there reselect adobe's application and confirm this selection or change the association for the .pdf file type within the windows control panel...
This was helpful in that it gives me a partial answer but now it adds other questions. I think part of the reply may have been cut off? What does it mean, registers as handler? We have people using any of 3 default browsers in my department. Some IE, some Firefox, possibly some Chrome (which was included in upgrade installation but I get the impression that people may not like or trust it.) What if some of the files have been opened with one browser, some with another? Also I do not have admin privileges on my work computer so probably can not change the adobe settings for my own computer, let alone the department. I see a potential mess. Where do I learn about this and how do I find some resources I can share?
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"registers as handler" should mean "sets itself as default program to open pdfs" (sorry for using technical lingo). this was a change in firefox 31 and should only happen when no other program like adobe is already set as default, so i suspect there is some sort of corruption with how adobe is installed on your pc.
can you try the alternate way described in this pdf file?: https://www.csusm.edu/iitstraining/box/documentation/default_change.pdf
This will also only happen if Firefox is set as the default browser, so users that have set another browser as the default browser won't be affected.