Adobe Reader Overrides Preview in Safari

For the last several versions the installer for Adobe Reader no longer asks whether the Adobe PDF Viewer should be installed for Web browsers.  If you've installed a recent version of Adobe Reader (which would be a good idea, as it probably fixes security problems with older versions) but you prefer the Preview-like behavior for PDF files in your Web browser, do the following:
1) If you installed Adobe Reader "for all users", open the Library folder at the top-level of your boot volume.
2) Open the Internet Plug-Ins folder within the library folder.
3) You should see a file named "AdobePDFViewer.plugin".  If you see a folder named "Disabled Plug-Ins", drag the Adobe file to that folder.  Alternatively you can just move the file to the trash.  Modifying that folder may cause an authentication dialog to appear.  If you see that, enter your administrative password.
If you installed Adobe Reader for only the current user, then follow the above instructions, but with the Library folder within the user home folder for that user.
If you want to reverse this, just drag the plugin file back out of the "Disabled" folder.

You're right that that option is available.  I don't believe I'd ever opened Adobe Reader's preferences, so I was unaware of that.  In addition, there are so many options in Adobe Reader's preferences that it's hard to find that particular one.
Oddly, if that plugin file is moved manually, the option to "Display PDF in browser using" is grayed out, at least on my Mac.
I still preferred to be able to choose that option at installation.

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