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I was having some hassles reading a PDF file in Safari since reinstalling Adobe Reader, so I decided to just pull their internet plug-in. I was completely dumbstruck when I found that their FAQ insists you have to enable and log in as root to do so. This is, of course, completely wrong, as any admin user can remove it.
Acrobat Help | Display PDF in browser | Acrobat, Reader XI
And on and on and on. All for a plug-in in /Library. The sheer ignorance here is astounding. Telling people who don't know better to enable root just opens up a can of worms, and it's completely unnecessary.
EDIT: They have a "feedback" button on that page. Everyone please feel free to give them feedback on this. They really need to fix this.
Acrobat Help | Display PDF in browser | Acrobat, Reader XI
Disable AdobePDFViewer plug-in
You must have root user privileges to change the Safari plug-ins. To display PDFs using the Safari PDF viewer, you must disable the Adobe PDF Viewer.
- Quit Safari.
- Log in as the root user. The root user privileges aren't enabled by default because the root user can change system files. For more information and instructions, see one of the following Apple documents: Enabling and using the "root" user in Mac OS X or OS X Mountain Lion: Enable and disable the root user.
And on and on and on. All for a plug-in in /Library. The sheer ignorance here is astounding. Telling people who don't know better to enable root just opens up a can of worms, and it's completely unnecessary.
EDIT: They have a "feedback" button on that page. Everyone please feel free to give them feedback on this. They really need to fix this.