From: "Rich Gauszka" 

with Firefox can't you  go into Tools - Options - Content - File
Types/Manage and change the 'Open With' for pdf ?

"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:4573c0dd{at}w3.nls.net...
>I guess that's a duh moment for me.  I have foxit installed and had it make
>itself the default for PDF's upon installation.  If I double click a .pdf
>file it opens in foxit, but if I'm browsing and click a link to a .pdf file
>it opens in Adobe (I am assuming because adobe has a browser plugin and
>foxit doesn't, if I remember correctly).
>
> I guess I could disable the Adobe plugin.
>
> Seems odd that foxit doesn't install a plugin for browsing when you tell
> the foxit installer to make foxit the default .pdf viewer.
>
> Gary
>
> Geo wrote:
>> Why bother? Just set foxit as the default program for .pdf and when you
>> click on a pdf link you get a popup saying "save or open".
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
>> news:45729291$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Is there a browser plugin for foxit reader?  Maybe we could just name a
>> copy
>>> of foxit reader acro32.exe or whatever is correct and put it in the
>>> appropriate adobe directory or something like that?
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> Geo wrote:
>>>> 4 days later and still no patch or word on when it will be
available..
>>>>
>>>> Geo.
>>>>
>>>> "John Beamish" 
wrote in message
>>>> news:op.tjvvyomgm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/01/adobe_vuln/
>>>>>
>>>>> A critical vulnerability has been identified in
Adobe's Acrobat and
>> Reader
>>>>> software which affects Internet Explorer users.
>>>>>
>>>>> As well as causing crashes, the frailty could allow a
botnet to take
>>>>> control of the whole computer when a PDF is opened
within Explorer.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The hole is present in Acrobat Standard and
Professional versions
>>>>> 7.0.0
>> to
>>>>> 7.0.8, and Adobe Reader 7.0.0 to 7.0.8. Only
Microsoft's browser is
>>>>> vulnerable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adobe's programmers are working on a patch, which
should be available
>> on
>>>>> its support site soon. In the meantime, deleting
AcroPDF.dll from the
>> will
>>>>> prevent Explorer from opening PDFs in the browser window.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adobe's advisory is here.(JB:  embedded link:
>>>>>
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa06-02.html )
>>>>
>>

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