Open Catalog image in ACR

LR 2.1; OS 10.4.11
Editing images in the Develop mode is very slow; is it possible to default open images in ACR via Preferences(as in Bridge when double clicking on the thumbnail)?
In the "Edit In" dialog, "Open in Other Application" is grayed out.
Thanks.

>Editing images in the Develop mode is very slow; is it possible to default open images in ACR via Preferences(as in Bridge when double clicking on the thumbnail)?
I can not help you with the slow editing in Develop mode; I am on Windows so maybe some Mac user can help you.
You will not be able to open an image in an external application by double-clicking because that will always get you to Lightroom's Develop module.
>In the "Edit In" dialog, "Open in Other Application" is grayed out.
You should set your external editors in Preferences, External Editing Tab. The first of those will be set to CS3 or CS4 if you have either installed.
You can choose the second external editor. In my case I use Nikon's Capture NX as my second External Editor.
But I have temporarily changed it to Bridge, purely for researching my answer to your question. This will open Bridge, and you can then select "Open in Camera Raw"; however this is such a long way around that it is hardly worth doing. And it also suffers from the problem that if you do not close Bridge, another copy of Bridge will open the next time choose to edit in Bridge from Lightroom.
I do not think that you can choose "Camera Raw" as an external editor because it is only a plug-in for Photoshop and Lightroom; and the version that Lightroom uses is basically the same as used by Photoshop.
I wonder why your Lightroom editing is slow? It may be worth looking at that problem first.
Hope these give you some pointers towards a solution.

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