Adobe Reader

[duragezic]

I don't know... it seems like Adobe Reader hangs Firefox sometimes. This has happened for a while with many versions of FF. My connection is fairly fast as is my computer. I tried the options in Adobe Reader to not have it open in a FF window and instead load the program separately but it doesn't seem to obey that. And it's just slow in general. I hit clicking a PDF on accident and having it take a long time to load up, freezing FF in the process.

I seen something called Adobe Reader Speedup which is used for tweaking and removing a lot of plugins from loading with it. Appearantly there is like 50-70 plugins that load with it, but most people don't need them at all. I went with the Speedup default settings and it just broke Reader so I reverted. I don't know if this is kind of a shady tweak program or I just didn't use the right settings.

Anyone use that speed up and have it work well? Or something else I can do to Reader to have it load faster or not hang FF sometimes? Or even a different reader altogether?

 

[Megatomic]

Have you tried Foxit Reader yet? That's what I use to read .pdf files and it's much much much better than Adobe Reader.

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: duragezic
I don't know... it seems like Adobe Reader hangs Firefox sometimes. This has happened for a while with many versions of FF. My connection is fairly fast as is my computer. I tried the options in Adobe Reader to not have it open in a FF window and instead load the program separately but it doesn't seem to obey that. And it's just slow in general. I hit clicking a PDF on accident and having it take a long time to load up, freezing FF in the process.

I seen something called Adobe Reader Speedup which is used for tweaking and removing a lot of plugins from loading with it. Appearantly there is like 50-70 plugins that load with it, but most people don't need them at all. I went with the Speedup default settings and it just broke Reader so I reverted. I don't know if this is kind of a shady tweak program or I just didn't use the right settings.

Anyone use that speed up and have it work well? Or something else I can do to Reader to have it load faster or not hang FF sometimes? Or even a different reader altogether?

just make it open in acrobat window, not in firefox. it can hang IE too, but not so often or esily.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
Have you tried Foxit Reader yet? That's what I use to read .pdf files and it's much much much better than Adobe Reader.

Ditto, I haven't been using it very long but so far I'm very happy with Foxit. Small and fast, much better than Adobe in my experience.

 

[Megatomic]

I've been using it at home for over a year now, and I like it so much I removed Adobe Reader from all the PCs at work and replaced it with Foxit. It works really well and opens much more quickly, too.

 

[duragezic]

Cool, thanks for the Foxit Reader suggestion. I will try that out tomorrow.

And yes, I wanted to make it open in an Acrobat window instead of Acrobat inside of a FF window (I heard this generally helps this issue), but the option that I simply disabled to do that seemed to be ignored, and didn't make a difference, since PDFs still loaded normally inside of a FF window.

But with the good reports of Foxit, that may be all I need if it works well enough that I can stop using Adobe Reader. Yeah I finally bothered with the 'Read out Loud' feature today. I just wanted to hear it on some technical/school PDFs to see how it sounded out of curiosity. Needless to say I was LOL, but anyway most of the "features" of Adobe Reader are not needed at all by me, so a simple viewer with basic features (Foxit sounds like it'll do) will work for me. Thanks all

 

[Megatomic]

So, did you try it out? If so, how'd you like it?