The good thing is that the extension isn't turned on by default, and users can leave it disabled or even remove it if they find it intrusive. "Since no personally identifiable information is collected, the anonymous data will not be meaningful to anyone outside of Adobe," the company says.ĭespite the privacy assurance, many users might not like Adobe showing their proprietary extension down their throats.
Users of Adobe Reader XI and Acrobat XI for Windows can protect themselves from this exploit by enabling Protected View. Beyond that, there has to be some sort of extension installed in the browser. The company posted mitigation information on the security advisory page: ADVERTISEMENT. It needs those permissions to perform some clever tricks to gather the text to read aloud. inside a different frame), the extension needs additional permission to grab the books content.
#TEST ACROBAT READER CHROME EXTENSION PDF#
The Adobe Acrobat extension also comes with anonymous usage data collection turned on by default, which might scare some users.Īccording to Adobe, extension users "share information with Adobe about how use the application." That should force Chrome to not try and open the PDF itself and instead use whatever is the default viewer on the computer, which sounds like should be Acrobat Reader. Hi, on many e-book reader sites, such as Google Book, because of the particular way the e-book is rendered in the browser (e.g.
The extension is also Windows-only, meaning Mac and Linux Chrome users will not receive it.
This extension allows users to save any web page they're on as a PDF file and share it or download it to disk. I guess a possible solution could be to use the recently release printProvider of chrome extensions. But as it was announced this solution won't work after chrome 45 because the npapi issue. The extensions name is Adobe Acrobat and is the same extension available through the Chrome Web Store. To do this I open the PDF with acrobat reader in chrome, that allow me to execute the script (with the proper permissions). The installation process is covert, but the next time users open their Chrome browser, they'll be notified by Chrome's security systems that a new extension has been added.
#TEST ACROBAT READER CHROME EXTENSION UPDATE#
Along with the security fixes, this update package also silently installs the Adobe Acrobat extension into the user's Chrome web browser. Adobe released yesterday Acrobat Reader DC 15.023.20053 that included fixes for 29 security issues.
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