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Disable Infobar: Set Microsoft Edge as the default application for reading PDF files
Gunnar-Haslinger Hi! Just wanted to pass along one workaround to remove the infobar. I've heard that other organizations have enable the AlwaysOpenPdfExternally policy (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#alwaysopenpdfexternally).
The team is still discussing an enterprise policy to specifically disable the infobar and will keep you updated about that. Thanks!
-Kelly
Hi Gunnar,
We are looking to achieve the same experience as you have mentioned. Can I ask where you observed the following please:
It seems this Functionality is configured with "default_pdf_handler_infobar_last_declined": "0" => after clicking "X" it is filled with an timestamp like "13265308169998304" and this Info-Bar disappears.
Thanks
Rob
Hi robzlr,
I'm not sure what exactly you like to know.
Are you asking about where to find the default_pdf_handler_infobar_last_declined preference?
Viewing all Preferences: edge://prefs-internals/
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Preferences (json-File)
- Kelly_Y
Microsoft
Gunnar-Haslinger Hi! Just wanted to pass along one workaround to remove the infobar. I've heard that other organizations have enable the AlwaysOpenPdfExternally policy (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#alwaysopenpdfexternally).
The team is still discussing an enterprise policy to specifically disable the infobar and will keep you updated about that. Thanks!
-Kelly
- Just want to follow up as other poster, this is not desired configuration for us. We have a scenario where all browser information is cleared and this always pops up every time.
Thanks Kelly_Y for pointing out the AlwaysOpenPdfExternally policy.
But - as described in my initial post- our needs are as follows:
User-FileType-Association of Win10-OS is configured to open "Adobe Reader" for PDF-Files, but following links to PDF-Files inside Edge should use the included Edge-PDF-rendering-Engine.
So the AlwaysOpenPdfExternally Workaround would not be our desired configuration.
Kelly_Y, I can confirm that configuring that policy does indeed have a side effect of preventing the display of the Infobar but obviously that disables the functionality that some will be looking for (including me). We look forward to a policy targeting the disablement of the Infobar as encouraging the changing of file associations by end users is not desirable in our environment.
@Gunnar Haslinger, thanks for the info, I appreciate it.
Rob
