Pdf's no longer opening in Acrobat X Pro

In the last two weeks or so, users have reported that where PDFs in libraries used to open in Acrobat Pro client, now the pdfs only open in browser.
We've checked the library and it's still set to Open in client Application.   
In Internet options, pdfs are set to open in acrobat pro.
In Acrobat Pro's prefs, Acrobat Pro is set to be the default file handler for PDF.
we need to be able to get people who need to open direct into the client app working again.
anyone know of recent events that could have changed the behavior?

Behavior for PDFs is not handled by SharePoint, but rather Adobe Acrobat. Validate Adobe Acrobat's PDF browser extension has been disabled (you can do this via IE and I believe Adobe Acrobat has this option within it's own Preferences).
Trevor Seward
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