Hi zlloyd1
I am Dave, I will help you with this.
That is correct, the Advanced Settings menu was removed about as year ago in all the Chromium based browsers like Edge and Chrome, all settings are now just in the Settings menu, try searching for whatever setting you need in there.
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I think this is the future - no settings - take it or leave it. Does anyone know how to get to settings after the "update?"
I downloaded Adobe and now when I download a PDF in Chrome, it automatically opens it in Adobe. I don't want that. Every help article I'm finding is saying to go to the settings menu, then advanced settings. However, I'm also seeing, for several years, people not able to find the advanced settings menu. I'm in the same boat. There is no advanced settings on the left side of chrome. How can I access this or turn off the fact that chrome auto opens every PDF in adobe? I hate it.
****EDIT****
Thanks to another user CornelG7 that I found on another thread from a while back, the way to fix this from happening is:
To fix go to Adobe -> Preferences -> General -> Uncheck "Open PDFs automatically in Reader when they are downloaded in Chrome browser"
That has solved my problem, still doesn't answer why Advanced Settings isn't there in Chrome anymore. Did they do away with it?