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Near the top, if you have Adobe Acrobat installed, you’ll see “Adobe Acrobat document”. When using FireFox it’s easiest to control what happens in Firefox itself.Ĭlick on FireFox’s Tools menu, Options menu item, and then in the resulting Options dialog, the Applications tab. On the left of the resulting Preferences… dialog box is a long list of categories click on InternetĬheck, or uncheck, the Display PDF in Browser as you wish. (If it doesn’t take effect immediately, you may need to close and restart the browser.) FireFox Once it’s open, click on Adobe’s Edit menu, and then the Preferences… menu item. When you use Adobe Reader, the option on where to display is a setting within Adobe, not within the browser.įire up Adobe Reader – you should find it in your Start menu. You may also need to select additional options when installing the PDF reader to make sure that the options are even available. The problem is that depending on which browser you use and which PDF reader you choose the setting you need to change may be in either, or both. This is, apparently, the way others apparently like it. You can tell this is a PDF document opened in an addon because of the additional PDF navigation controls at the top of the display window: When you click on the link to the PDF the document is downloaded, this time almost certainly to the internet temporary files location, and the Adobe Reader addon opens the file displaying it within Internet Explorer. In this case, the adobe reader operates as an add-on within Internet Explorer, and displays the document within IE – almost treating it as if it were another web page, which of course it isn’t really. When you click on the link to the PDF on the web page, the document is downloaded, either to a location of your choosing or the internet temporary files location, and then opened outside of the browser in the separate PDF reading application.

Here you can see Internet Explorer opened to the Internet Safety eBook download page, and Adobe Acrobat Reader with the document open in the foreground. The “normal” approach to reading a PDF file that’s presented to you on a web page is to click on the link to the PDF, download it to your machine and then run the PDF reading application as a separate Window to open and read the document: Most common is Adobe Acrobat Reader, though there are others such as Foxit Reader. They require that you have a PDF reader of some sort installed. PDF, or Portable Document Format, files are just that – individual files that contain a document designed to be easily viewed just about anywhere.

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