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Disable Infobar: Set Microsoft Edge as the default application for reading PDF files
When opening a Link to a PDF-Document in Edge v90 there is an Infobar shown: "Set Microsoft Edge as the default application for reading PDF files?" It seems this Functionality is configu...
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
Kelly_Y
Microsoft
MicrosoftAmarjeet5 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.
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.