<p dir="ltr">The desktop decides what application is the default. The browser also has a default app setting.<br>
Nothing wrong with uninstalling the thing !</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 29, 2014 10:57 AM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">In order to deal with the GA tax forms I had to give up and download and install Adobe's PDF reader.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Much to my surprise it set itself as the default pdf reader. WTF?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I did not want that. I don't trust Adobe to get security right.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Is it possible to wall off the default linkage of file types to applications so this kind of thing doesn't happen again?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Sean</p>
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