You can allow or block Microsoft Edge from opening PDF files externally by changing some settings using Registry Editor or Group Policy Editor in Windows 11/10.

If you read content like eBooks or any other long PDF files, then you might like to disable Chrome, Firefox or Edge’s PDF Viewer and switch to a better alternative.

On Windows 10, you can make another app the default to open PDF documents instead of Microsoft Edge, and in this guide, we’ll show you two ways to complete this task.

PDFs are something I deal with all of the time and in this how to I show you how to disable PDF viewer in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.

How to Change Settings to Open a PDF File. A Portable Document File is a type of file that uses an open standard across different computer platforms and programs.