...and Adobe won't tell me how to fix it unless I pay them $40.
So... does anyone here know how?
I had some old version of Adobe Acrobat Professional installed a long time ago, but it stopped working properly, and caused both IE and Firefox to crash when trying to open a .PDF document, and since I never used it for anything, I uninstalled it.
With Firefox I use a PDF downloader extension to automatically save PDF files to the disk rather than opening them, and so I can always open them with Foxit Reader. The problem arises when a website insists on using scripting in my browser to retrieve the .PDF and launch it in the window, rather than just linking me to the document. When that happens, I always get an error saying it couldn't find/launch Acrobat. My file associations in Windows explorer are fine, but the browser for whatever reason can't see those associations, and has been hard-coded to use Acrobat, which doesn't exist on my system. This means that no matter what I do, I can't open, view, or download the document.
Unfortunately, this practice of making the browser open PDF files the way it doesn't want to open them is common among banks and financial institutions. It crippled my attempts to file income taxes online, and also to sign promissary notes for my federal Stafford loans.
Acrobat has been completely uninstalled. Is there any way to manually fix whatever it did to all of my browsers?
So... does anyone here know how?
I had some old version of Adobe Acrobat Professional installed a long time ago, but it stopped working properly, and caused both IE and Firefox to crash when trying to open a .PDF document, and since I never used it for anything, I uninstalled it.
With Firefox I use a PDF downloader extension to automatically save PDF files to the disk rather than opening them, and so I can always open them with Foxit Reader. The problem arises when a website insists on using scripting in my browser to retrieve the .PDF and launch it in the window, rather than just linking me to the document. When that happens, I always get an error saying it couldn't find/launch Acrobat. My file associations in Windows explorer are fine, but the browser for whatever reason can't see those associations, and has been hard-coded to use Acrobat, which doesn't exist on my system. This means that no matter what I do, I can't open, view, or download the document.
Unfortunately, this practice of making the browser open PDF files the way it doesn't want to open them is common among banks and financial institutions. It crippled my attempts to file income taxes online, and also to sign promissary notes for my federal Stafford loans.
Acrobat has been completely uninstalled. Is there any way to manually fix whatever it did to all of my browsers?