Bring Reader/Acrobat plugins back to Chrome???

Can someone from Adobe speak to whether or not they will be offering the Reader and Acrobat plugins back into Chrome built on PPAPI or HTML5? Google deprecated NPAPI for multiple reasons, but I hope Adobe is looking to bring these plugins back to Chrome on newer tech?? These are used heavily in enterprise applications for end users....

I would imagine they are working on it but that's only conjecture. Anyone that knows will not be able to say due to an NDA.

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FF 20.0
I have Adobe Acrobat X 10.1.6. and the plugin checker says its out of date.
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when i try to put adobe acrobat XI -create pdf' plugin into google chrome, it says 'Attempted to downgrade extension'?
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Hey,
Thanks for posting the solution as that might help other users with the same issue.
Regards,
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"However, web browsers are somewhat notorious for getting confused when their plugins change and update, so it's possible that when the two plugins updated, your selection as to which one is active has been corrupted, leaving neither plugin operational. You should be able to correct that with the options/preferences within your web browser itself."
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Hi wansang,
Please check the Doc : http://blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/2011/12/get-reader-or-acrobat-to-work-in-chrome-compact-pdf -output-from-chrome/http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/pdf-browser-plugin-configuration.html
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Here is some background to my question
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Will

Hi thanks for your response, yes it seems this API is availalbe but there are no examples of how to use it. You mentioned its available in Adobe reader and Adobe Acrobat plugins. Well I'm using the Adobe Reader Active X Browser Plugin so how would I use this API to restrict the Browser plugin.l
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Hello, everyone.
Our internal network systems have two browsers - IE8 and FireFox10. The IE8 browsers have security settings so high that the Acrobat plugin for it isn't even installed. When viewing a PDF in IE8, the browser relinquishes viewing to Adobe Reader. This presents a problem, as we have a Solr Collection indexing over 1,000 PDFs making them searchable, and when opened in a browser the PDF highlights and keeps track of where the keywords are located within.
So we fall back to FireFox for viewing PDFs. The search function works most adequately.
But FireFox10 with Adobe Acrobat plugin 10.1.4.38 has another issue: hyperlinks.
The PDFs were all created in Word 2007 using the Adobe PDFMaker plugin for Office, "Save As PDF", not "Print to PDF". While the Reader will automatically parse an FQDN, making it a live, clickable link that will open a browser to said FQDN, FireFox will NOT. The FQDN is blue and underscored, so it looks like a link, but clicking it produces nothing.
We discovered (with some experimenting) that if a FQDN in Word is highlighted, copied, right-clicked and "Hyperlink" selected, then pasted into the proper field, then the link will work in FireFox.
As I stated, we have over 1,000 of these PDFs, and we don't have the resources to edit every single one looking for FQDN text and performing the above operation.
So, I guess what I asking is: will a future Acrobat plugin for FireFox automatically parse FQDN links?
What options do I have in order to make the links work in FireFox, until then?
Thank you,
^_^

This is an on going issue that been going on for close to 15 years between Microsoft and Adobe.
Try Opening Fire Fox and Upgrading to the latest version.
Next upgrade to at least Acrobat . I've already upgraded to XI
Maybe after 15 years the issue has been taken care of.
dobe claims (for 15 years That Mac Office doesn't have the proper Hooks for hot Links).
The odd thing is that Office11 is a Direct port of Office2007/2010 with code changes only for the Mac interface.
If it's still an issue then its an Issue that Adobe is lazy and don't want to fix it.
If your using a Mac you can open that same PDF on a PC and the links work.

Two Adobe Acrobat Plugins In Firefox ... Want to Remove Outdated Plugin

Creative Cloud Customer with all Adobe software current
Windows 8 Pro 64 bit
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Firefox 19.0.1
In looking at my Plugins, I notice that I have two Adobe Acrobat, one 11.0.0.379 and the other 11.0.2.0. The last one seems to match my Adobe Acrobat Pro version number. I assume the 11.0.0.379 is outdated?
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I look forward to your assistance.

Okay, well I just an interesting experience.
Here's what happened:
Deleted oldest program without remembering to deactivate first.
After I uninstalled, I noticed that the program listings in the Control Panel were blank. That is, both the old and new versions were gone.
In Firefox, the first entry of Adobe Acrobat 11.0.2.0 was gone, but the other listing of Adobe Acrobat 11.0.0.379 remained
Thinking that I erred in not deactivating first, I used Adobe's Chat to reset my counter. The nice man asked me for my email and then my order number for Creative Cloud. After I logged into my Adobe account to retrieve the information, he promptly told me that he couldn't help me and that I needed to call back on Monday using a 1-800 number. I am puzzled why we bothered with the dance of email addresses and order numbers.
Throwing caution to the wind, I decided to try to install Adobe Acrobat from my Creative Cloud account. The worst that happen is that it will fail to load.
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I installed the updates. See picture below for Control Panel shot.
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How do i REMOVE the Adobe Acrobat Plugin.

Every time i click [Disable] then restart FF, it's back, running again.
I do not want Acrobat, as i would rather use Foxit Reader.
The only button in the Addons manager is [Disable] there does not seem to be a [Uninstall] or [Delete this plugin] option. Nor does adobe acrobat appear in Add/Remove Programs in Control panel.
Nor did i even install it in the first place. (Must have come packed with another app)
Either way, i want it gone. Please tell me where FF Stores it's addons, and which file to delete to get rid of this infuriating nuisance.

Tried the app that you linked to, no use, bloody acrobat still came back.
'''App Log:'''
Tue Feb 12 09:19:59 2013 ** Info : Log Started : Reader Acrobat Cleaner Tool.
Tue Feb 12 09:20:05 2013 ** Info : Product to clean : Acrobat
Tue Feb 12 09:20:05 2013 ** Info : Initialized Acrobat Configurations .
Tue Feb 12 09:20:05 2013 ** Info : Clean level : All
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Tue Feb 12 09:20:05 2013 ** Info : Executing CheckFilesInUse::
Tue Feb 12 09:20:05 2013 ** Info : Executing RemoveProductFiles::
Tue Feb 12 09:20:05 2013 ** Info : Executing RemoveProductReg::
Tue Feb 12 09:20:05 2013 ** Info : Executing RemoveMicrosoftUninstallReg::
Tue Feb 12 09:20:05 2013 ** Info : Executing RemoveMicrosoftUpgradeCodeReg::
Tue Feb 12 09:20:05 2013 ** Info : Executing RemoveMicrosoftComponentReg::
Tue Feb 12 09:20:07 2013 ** Info : Executing RemoveMicrosoftProductReg::
Tue Feb 12 09:20:07 2013 ** Info : Executing RemoveAcrobatReaderFeatureReg::
Tue Feb 12 09:20:07 2013 ** Info : Executing RemoveAcrobatReaderPatchesReg::
Tue Feb 12 09:20:07 2013 ** Info : Executing RemoveAdobeInstReg::
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Tue Feb 12 09:20:07 2013 ** Info : Adobe pdf printer successfully removed.
Tue Feb 12 09:20:07 2013 ** Info : Executing RemoveUserProductFiles::
Tue Feb 12 09:20:07 2013 ** Info : Executing RemoveUserProductReg::
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Tue Feb 12 09:20:07 2013 ** Info : Cleanup successfully done.
Tue Feb 12 09:20:07 2013 ** Info : Please reboot your machine to complete cleanup.
Tue Feb 12 09:20:07 2013 ** Info : Log Ended.
Tue Feb 12 09:20:07 2013 ** Info : ---------------------------------------------
Addon Remains (See Screenshot)
Where does FF Store the addon itself? because obviously Adobe are too inept to make a proper plugin remover that actually works.

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