Hi Gigi, OK, I found instructions on the names of the two files to remove. If you installed this system wide, they will be in the system /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ folder. If you installed these only for your account, they will be in the Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ folder under your user account. I think that Adobe Reader tries, by default, to make Adobe Reader the default browser option for everyone on your Mac, so they may be in the system /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ folder.
>From a reply in the Adobe support forums to a post by a Mac user who was >trying to remove Adobe Reader from his system: "To resolve this, go to /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ and remove AdobePDFViewer.plugin and AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin" You'll need to close and relaunch Safari after you've done this. Also, for anyone who actually wants to use the Adobe Plug-Ins for Safari, but is having difficulty viewing the PDFs, on Snow Leopard systems you need to launch Safari in 32-bit mode for the plug-ins to display PDFs correctly. This is solved by selecting the Safari application in Finder, using Command-I to "Get Info" and then checking the box for "Open in 32-bit mode". HTH. Cheers, Esther On 23 Apr 2013, at 15:56, Esther wrote: > Hi Gigi, > > You can disable and delete browser extensions in Safari preferences, from the > "Extensions" tab, but the only way you can remove browser plug-ins is to > delete them from the ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ folder of your account, as > I believe Tim Kilburn instructed you. If the plug-ins that you either move > or delete from this location are named "Adobe", then nothing else will get > disabled except for these functions. If you want to take precautions, move > the plug-ins to another location, such as your Desktop. That way you can > always move them back, if they perform some other needed function. Sorry, I > cannot tell you the name of the Adobe plug-in files, since I've avoided > installing their plug-ins since Tiger. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On 23 Apr 2013, at 14:00, Eugenia Firth wrote: > >> Hi there >> I couldn't find the option for disabling plug-ins and Safari preferences. I >> will look again. No, nobody else but me uses my Mac. If I disable plug-ins, >> however, is there anything else that will get disabled besides Adobe? >> Regards, >> Gigi >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Apr 22, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Nicholas Parsons >> <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Can't you just uninstall Adobe Reader from your user account anyway as you >>> shouldn't need it? Or do other people use your account who like Adobe? I >>> would have also thought you could disable plugins from the Advanced tap in >>> Safari Preferences. >>> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
