If you keep Chrome up-to-date without changing any settings, any PDF you download may open within the web browser by default.

Citing security concerns, the company wants Chrome to open PDF files by default, bypassing any third-party programs such as Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader.

You can easily change your default PDF viewer on your Windows PC to Adobe’s Acrobat Reader for files you download to your PC or open in your browser.

How to Make Adobe Acrobat the Default PDF Viewer. The PDF, or portable document format file, was created to transform output from any document creation software into a file almost any recipient ...

How to make Acrobat the default PDF viewer in your browser? While Microsoft Edge can open any PDF file, if you prefer Adobe Acrobat, you can use the Adobe extension to make Acrobat the default PDF ...

See what you can do to fix the problem quickly. Adobe Acrobat Reader could not open PDF Earlier, Acrobat products performed no checks on the extraneous bytes present before the %PDF-header.

How to Reset Adobe Reader to the Default Printer. If you frequently print PDF files from Adobe Reader on a Windows 7 computer, you may be selecting the printer each time you print.