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EVSivier
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May 17, 2021
Question

Manually installation of the acrobat extension in Firefox for MAC.

  • May 17, 2021
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Hi. How can I install manually the acrobat extension in Firefox for MAC. ?

The topic "Install Missing Adobe Acrobat Extension in Firefox (Convert webpages to PDF)" works fine for Window. But I can't see something like this for mac

 

Edson Sivieri

MAC OS High Sierra 10.13.6

Firefox 88.0.1

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me1004
Participant
June 30, 2025

Gee, I was just about to start a new discussion on this issue. I found this thread. This is FOUR YEARS OLD and so far Adobe apparently has not taken nnote, has done NOTHING to even respond to the thread much less solve it? It's now June 30, 2025. This is a shoddy showing by Adobe.

 

I just upgraded my Firefox ESR (extended service release) to the current Firefox version in a new installation (since ESR can't be upgraded). I had the Acrobat extension in the ESR, but I can't get it an any way on my new version. I do have Acrobat DC 18 on my macOS 10.13.6 Intel.

 

I need the extension for v. 18 - the one in my ESR version is v. 18.0.2. (Where is that installed, it's not where all the other extension xpi files are? Or, does it go by some name not identifiable as Acrobat or Adobe?) It is nowhere in Extensions Manager or anywhere else in Firefox nor in my system files. I have looked all through, even found the Profiles folder for the extensions' .xpi files that can be used to install them in Firefox. But as I just said, while I see my other extensions in that, there is none for Acrobat, not for my current version of the browser nor for the ESR version (but I still have the extension adn working for the ESR version). 

 

In the Windows thread, it was said it can be had from inside the original application installer. I found that, but of course, I can't get into that, not even with my Xcode application. I am not going to do a full uninstall and reinstall of the application -- especially afgter seeing people in the Windows thread saying they tried that, but it did not help. 

 

I have the application. How can iget the extension for it. I know how to install from the .xpi, that is all I need, for v.18. 

 

Like people have said for years, why is there not an Adobe Acrobat extension at Firefox extensions? That point was raised years ago, there is no excuse for it to still not be there -- or anywhere. It should at least be on the Adobe website to get! 

 

How can I get this into my Firefox current version on Mac? 

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marktru
Participating Frequently
July 2, 2025

BTW, I note, Test Screen Name's link above is not for Mac, it is for Windows. Nonetheless, it is not for when the Acrobat extension is missing, when it is NOT already in Firefox Extensions Manager, it is merely for enabling it after it is in there.  My issue and albertw's issue, and apparently the OP's issue, considering he notes he was already at "Install Missing Adobe Acrobat Extension in Firefox (Convert webpages to PDF)", is that there is no Acrobat extension in my Firefox Extensions Manager. I know how to enable it once I have it.

 

We need to know where we can get the Acrobat xpi so we can install it. I have added my version of Firefox, v.139.0.4, after I already had Acrobat on my sysem. But it seems Acrobat installs that extension only during the installation of Acrobat! Hey, not everyone installed Firefox BEFORE they installed Acrobat. We can't have to do a major project of erasing the current installation, which works fine, and then install Acrobat anew, which always can get all fouled up and which will take a lot of time I don't have. I have explained the rest of my situation above. 

 

We need to get the xpi for our version of Acrobat. I'm using Acrobat DC v. 2018, and in my prior installation of Firefox, the xpi was v. 18.0.2. It supposedly is in the orignal installer file, but I can't get inside that to find it. It's not a package we can open in Mac. 

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Test Screen Name
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May 17, 2021

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/enable-createpdf-extension-firefox.html still seems to cover Mac. Do you have Acrobat Pro installed and working? (Not just the free Acrobat Reader)

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albertw
Participant
January 6, 2022

I experienced similar problem on Mac Monterey 12.1.  Acrobat extension is not found in Firefox 95.0.2 after installing Acrobat Pro 2020 (Classic) 2020.004.30017.  Reinstalling Acrobat does not help.  How to manually install the Firefox extension (Acrobat Create PDF extension)?

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Joe27379510ck9n
Participant
December 1, 2022

Any updates on this? I can't get it to come back on Mac either.

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