Disable Acrobat plug-in so

Is it possible to disable the Acrobat plug-in for Safari without uninstalling Adobe Acrobat Reader? Acrobat Reader is much slower for viewing PDFs so I use Preview to view PDFs that I download but I would prefer to use it in Safari too. The problem is that I have some PDF books that Preview unfortunately does not display properly, so I cannot just uninstall Adobe Acrobat Reader.

You can disable the plugin for Safari by going to ~/Library/InternetPlug-Ins and removing it from the folder. If you're referring to e-books that Preview doesn't display properly, you can always view them in Acrobat Reader or Skim (a free, open source PDF and PostScript reader). But if you're just referring to PDF files that Preview doesn't display properly for some reason, Safari is capable of viewing PDFs in the browser, without any plug-ins at all.
Post back with details if your problem isn't solved by one of the above suggestions.
Mulder

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