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Adobe makes some amazing Windows applications, but am I the only one who would like web-hosted PDFs to open outside the browser?

After a quick search, I found the simple solution (for v6.0 at least)

  • Open Adobe (Acrobat) Reader from the start menu
  • Edit > Preferences
  • Select "Internet"
  • Un-check "Display PDF in browser"

While you're at it, you may want to set auto-update to manual (under Updates) and disable the splash screen (under Startup).

Doesn't that feel better?

FYI: This works great for IE. I couldn't figure out how to get the setting to stick for Mozilla.

I hope to figure out how this works for Office documents next.