Adobe XI hijacked as Chrome's default viewer

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David Bethel
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Adobe XI hijacked as Chrome's default viewer

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I had to install Adobe Reader XI ( Obamacare uses XFA forms that PDF-XChange can't view )

Anyway, Adobe hijacked as the default viewer in Chrome ( 30.0.1599.69 m ) and I can't for the life of me find the place to change the settings back to PDF-XChange. There used to be AddOns in Chrome ( or so I thought ) but no longer......

Any help would be appreciated. -David

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Stefan - PDF-XChange
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Re: Adobe XI hijacked as Chrome's default viewer

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Hi David,

I hope this will help:
https://www.pdf-xchange.com/knowledgebase/303

Regards,
Stefan
David Bethel
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Re: Adobe XI hijacked as Chrome's default viewer

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Stefan,

Thank you very much. I did get it to work. But what a horrible way to have to go about it !

I've book marked the link. Hopefully I'll never have to use it again. -David
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Re: Adobe XI hijacked as Chrome's default viewer

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:)