
It will go straight to the Download dialog box. In Chrome, when you click a PDF doc, it will not give you an option to OPEN it. It will download and show up in your recent downloads and you can open it by clicking on the notification. If you click SAVE AS it will open a dialog box allowing you to save the file where you want. This way you aren't adding a file to your hard drive that you haven't viewed yet. Or print it and close it and save it or don't. You can view it, work with it, and then if you want to save it, you can. If that is set to Acrobat, it will open in Acrobat. If you choose OPEN, it will download to a temp file and open in whatever your default PDF viewer is under the file type section in Windows Settings. In Edge, when you click a PDF doc, it will show the download window and it will say "What do you want to do with (filename)?" Your choices are OPEN or SAVE AS. Both will DOWNLOAD your PDFs instead of opening them in the browser. Click that and then click "Download PDFs". Scroll down to click "Additional Content Settings". You get a list of settings where pdf is mentioned. For simplicity, just uncheck "PDF View Settings".Ĭhrome isn't much different. Make sure "Always download pdf documents" is CHECKED. Click that and you get a page "Search results /PDF documents - 7 results" Near the bottom of this page you see "Pdf Documents" and it's highlighted. With Edge, as with chrome, if you open the settings and type "pdf" in the search, you get a list of settings where pdf is mentioned. The price we pay for more options and flexibility is more complexity. New Edge is chromium based and pdfs work the same way in both with a small exception, Edge has more options. I'm running the same thing and I don' t have this problem. Notes: If the Always open PDF files externally is on then if you try to open any online PDF document, it will prompt you to download and later you can use Adobe Reader to view.

Scroll down and click on PDF documents, Toggle the switch to On for Always open PDF files externally. Select Settings from the drop down and click on Site permissions from the left pane. Method 2: Stop opening PDF file if you are using New Edge Chromium.Ĭlick on the three dots (…) from the right top corner. pdx file type, then click on the + sign to change it to Adobe Reader. Now scroll down and click on Choose default apps by file type.

Press Windows + I key to launch Windows Settings.Ĭlick on Apps and select Default apps from the left pane. In this scenario, we would suggest you to perform these methods and check. We understand your concern as you would like to change the default app for PDF file from Edge to Adobe.
