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Like contributors here, I found that neither method worked.

Various other forums too suggest that it's just a matter of using Start | Set Program Access and Defaults, and choosing "Use default browser" or forcing Firefox to be the default. It also seems to have been a problem for long time going back to early versions of Mozilla Firefox 1.06. Last year Adobe's own tech note declared it "a rare problem and there is no known solution":Īnd the problems continue in relation to Vista : The fact that URL links from within Adobe Reader always launch Internet Explorer instead of the default browser, say Firefox, seems be a common problem from within the Reader, and from within the Help (Google "Adobe Reader default browser"). I don't link things messing with my registry uninvited. It's really annoying because IE attempts to modify the registry each time it In a PDF still invokes IE, even though that is clearly not my "default browser",Īnyone know how to disable IE as the "default browser" in Acrobat 7 on XP?

Way it was before I played with that button. However, Dimitri's suggestion *did* work to reset this panel back to the Once clicked, the button is grey and there is no way in Acrobat 7 to unselect it.Īnd clicking CANCEL on each panel all the way to the top and killing AcrobatĪlso did not undo that change! On reopen of Acrobat, IE remained set. *assumed* that a widget would appear to let me UNDO that change. On a lark I clicked the "MakeDefault" button, hoping that a newĪlternative widget would appear to let me set a different browser - and I There was no button or select anywhere to change to a differentĭefault. The "make IE the default" was NOT checked and the "MakeDefault" button The browser that Acrobat 7 chooses when a link is clicked in a PDF.Įdit/Preferences/Internet/InternetSettings/Programs Settings for at least 2 years on my XP system.

I, too, tried to disable IE as the default browser using Dimitri's suggestion,Įven though Firefox has been my system default Browser for.