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On my Imac, how do I make Preview my default app for opening PDF files?

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Hi brent1234,

You should take a look at the Knowledge Base article Applications panel - Set how Firefox handles different types of files. It will show you how to associate file types with the programs that should open them.

Hopefully this helps!

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Hi brent1234,

You should take a look at the Knowledge Base article Applications panel - Set how Firefox handles different types of files. It will show you how to associate file types with the programs that should open them.

Hopefully this helps!

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Matt,

Thanks for the reply.

Let me rephrase the question. On my desktop Mac, using OX 10.7.2, I'm trying to get my Mail & Find Applications to point to the Preview Application when trying to open a PDF. Right now the default is to the Adobe Acrobat Application. How do I change these?

I have looked through the Systems Preferences, Mail and Find Preferences screens with no luck.

Kindly advise.

Thanks.

Brent

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Do you see the PDF file extension in Firefox > Preferences > Applications ?