Using Preview application

I was having a problem installing the latest version of free Adobe Reader for my Mac, I tried many things, I just could not get it. I contacted adobe but they helped just so far, next step is to pay for serious tech assistance.
I was able to download Adobe Reader 8.1.3. I made the default PDF viewer Preview 4.2. It works fine. My question is this secure to open PDF's from internet with older Adobe Reader, but use latest version of Preview???
Thank you,
Taffers

I don't have Reader installed (I dislike it and prefer Preview). Sometimes people get Adobe Reader installed even though they don't want it, and it creates itself as the default PDF viewer in Safari, by installing some other Adobe product. I suspect something like this may have happened. The advice from Apple is probably the result of mutual confusion: you only need the plugin if you want to open PDFs in Safari with Reader. If you don't want this you don't need the plugin. Furthermore, the plugin will prevent using Preview in Safari. Try quitting Safari and looking in
MacintoshHD/Library/Internet Plug-ins
If "AdobePDFViewer.plugin" is there, remove it. You may be asked for your admin password. Restart Safari and see if a PDF file now opens correctly in Safari. You might also check in your home ~/Library folder:
/Users/yourname/Library/Internet Plug-Ins
and see if there is an AdobePDFViewer file there. If there is you'll have to remove it also.
Francine
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