PDFs keep opening in acrobat reader DC instead of as a Chrome tab

[Guest]

Yesterday I was playing around with adobe, right clicked a downloaded file, and checked a box that said something like "open all pdfs in acrobat reader". I soon realized this made all files open outside of chrome in adobe itself rather than the chrome extension. How do I reverse this? Its extremely inconvenient at the moment.

thanks

[~graffiti]

This isn't a Reader or an Adobe issue at all but:

In Chrome, Type in "about:plugins" in the address bar (no quotes).

Find the Chrome PDF Viewer and click enable.

Keep in mind that Chrome uses it's own viewer which for the most part s ok but you may experience issues with it when viewing certain fillable forms.

[Guest]

Thanks, but about:plugins was removed from the newest chrome build. I went to advanced settings, content settings, pdf, but could not find anything about chrome pdf viewer. Any other ideas?

[~graffiti · Accepted solution]

Sorry. Hadn't been in there in a while. So now it's Settings>Advanced>Privacy and security>Content settings>PDF Documents. Turn off "Download PDF files instead of automatically opening them in Chrome".

[~graffiti]

For any other Chrome PDF issues, please visit the Google forum for Chrome. Again, they do not use the Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin.

[Nicole33987763ni6p]

What if these are my chrome settings but files on my computer are still opening in Adobe. Files from websites are also downloading as PDF file rather than auto opening in a chrome tab. 

[default5qmrbp4nvzcu]

I had the same issue and it was resolved by Adobe Support team. If you are using a MAC maybe this would help:

"Looks like Acrobat has been set as the default application to launch PDF files on your Mac. Would you mind changing it and checking if it works? You can check the steps here: https://adobe.ly/4dLu78k."

[Abambo]

This is indeed an OS or browser issue. Acrobat is performing as instructed.