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How can users make sure they get rid once and for all of Adobe PDF reader? It seems hardly a month goes buy without a major Adobe Reader exploit. Most importa
by martinced 14y ago
How can users make sure they get rid once and for all of Adobe PDF reader?
It seems hardly a month goes buy without a major Adobe Reader exploit.
Most importantly: can you still keep Adobe Flash (e.g. for YouTube) but disabling Adobe PDF reader and not have it re-install itself when upgrading Flash?
- tomku 14y agoUninstall it. I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting with your last line, but I have never heard of Acrobat Reader "re-installing itself" when upgrading Flash. Edit: Just gave it a shot, installed and uninstalled Acrobat Reader 11, then updated Flash. Adobe Reader did not "re-install" itself and there was no prompt to install it.
- elarkin 14y agoI've taken to using Chrome for Flash. It includes Pepper, a Google maintained version of Flash. You will never be presented with an Adobe Reader prompt again.
- tomku 14y agoPepper is NOT a "Google maintained version of Flash." Pepper is Google's newer plugin API, and Chrome bundles a version of Flash that uses that uses Pepper/PPAPI rather than Netscape/Firefox's NPAPI. For more info, check out the Wiki page on NPAPI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI
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- _quasimodo 14y agoI live without flash since 2 years. Its not so hard anymore now that youtube uses html 5 videos.