Use Adobe Reader 7 with JavaScript disabled

Jun 03, '05 09:20:00AM

Contributed by: nemoinis

For security reasons, I like to disable JavaScript support in Adobe Reader 7. This is set in Preferences -> JavaScript -> Enable Acrobat Javascript checkbox off.

If you try it, you will notice that the application pops up this dialog every time you want to quit:


You'll see this every time you quit the application -- even if you have no open documents at all. This bug occurs on other platforms as well, not just Mac OS X, and is due to Reader trying to update a file called glob.settings.js in your user data upon quitting, even when JavaScript is disabled.

Here's a workaround for Mac OS X Adobe Reader 7.0.0 and 7.0.1:

That's it! This prevents Adobe Reader 7 from creating the glob.settings.js file, and you won't see any more warnings when you quit.

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