Automatic opening of pdf files after download

[kryv45150855]

This thing is bothering me because I tried to look up for support, I tried re-installing Chrome, Adobe Reader and also installing an other PDF Viewer program, but every time I set the app as default app for the .pdf format the downloaded file is instantly opened even if I don't want to. I also tried previous versions of Adobe Reader and it didn't work as well.
I really need it to stop because I have to download a lot of files for University and I don't want to be forced to close these windows every time after the download.

What can I do? Also, I would rather not change browser as I don't want to re-insert all the passwords and favourites again.

[Sharon368127184m5a]

Thank you so much. This solved the problem!

[The Online22978079n60a]

Thank you! This worked!

[Wagih..]

This should be flagged as the correct answer. Thanks Man.

[Josue AC]

Awesome, just fixed it. Mine starting opening just two days ago and it was driving me crazy after making shipping labels on paypal. 

[Miles37371238n35s]

Thank you!!

[slarand1234]

You are the true MVP! This was driving me crazy! Thanks!

[Nina382645616jat]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!

I have been struggling with this for months and couldn't find a solution anywhere.

It was this easy the whole time.....

[Michael221539553dqe]

Thanks for this!!  Simple and no other good fixes were easily found.  Much appreciated

[Mindy5EF8]

Ive never been more thankful for a fix ...ever!  THANK YOU!

[Yashmyn]

Thank you so much, JTan44! That did the trick.

[Michael379692395frr]

Wow!  Thank you so much.  This solved the issue for me.

[Maria38835468gt4t]

I am the other way around. The way we work is that we print almost immediately what we download so I wanted everything to open and then go on CTRL+P, CTRL+Q to close and print the next one. I love that it opens automatically and it turned off but this answer is still one of the most ever. Still helpful almost a year later. THANK YOU!

[douglas_9003]

Worked perfectly.  Thank you!!!

[Cathie27982374pmos]

Thank you so much!!  Was driving me crazy!

[caring_introvert4808]

Another "thank you" for posting this. I am so glad I stumbled upon this page and found this fix!

[William355081589mcb]

This is an old thread, but I just started running into this, even though my defaul PDF viewer is Chrome.

There is a setting in your Adobe Reader Preferences that you can change.

You can get to Prefences by Ctrl + K or

opening the drop-down of the top-left hamburger button > Preferences...

Deselect "Open PDFs automatically in Reader when they are downloaded in Chrome browser

Scroll to the bottom and click "OK"

[Rudra35640462froy]

I am unable to view this option 

[Tricia35755489z6v5]

Same here!  This is exactly what mine looks like. Did you ever find an option for this? 

[vanshy095]

bruh you just open adobe reader click on preference go to general unclick the option (auto open pdf after installing in chorme) thats it 

[JTan44]

Seems as if this option isn't showing for all users in their menu, no clue why. 

[Serene37349375ic3l]

I been same issue and sort it out as follow:

in PDF, go to Menu>Preferences>General then untick the 'open PDFs automatically'