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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 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)
MicrosoftGunnar-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.
- Kelly_Y
Amarjeet5 Thanks for reaching out! We have not received any update from the PDF team yet but I have passed along your feedback.
-Kelly
- Thanks for the update, a minor detail to provide is that we are using group policy to keep .pdf default to Adobe Reader. This has some business requirements currently however, we want to keep the default behavior of opening the PDF in Edge from a website.
So the actual behavior is fine, the prompt is not needed especially if we are using Group Policy to manage the .PDF extension in this scenario.
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
