It doesn't happen to other people, it's still your computer.
Speeding up Firefox?
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It doesn't happen to other people, it's still your computer.
I found about Foxit a few years back and never returned to Adobe. Adobe Acrobat is the ugliest bloatware I've ever seen. I tell everyone I know about Foxit and recommend them to use it.
More people need to know about Foxit... let Foxit Reader beat the crap out of Abode Acrobat. As it should be.
Foxit's awesome. I've been using it for quite a while myself.
I have noticed that it doesn't always play well with FF3. But I think I've got that part worked out now.
An Adobe is some of the biggest bloatware I've seen in a long time.
I have noticed that it doesn't always play well with FF3. But I think I've got that part worked out now.
An Adobe is some of the biggest bloatware I've seen in a long time.
aimeeandbeatles
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I wasn't even aware there was an ad.
Till
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The PDFdownload extension is very handy for dealing with PDFs. It lets you choose, on a case by case basis, whether you want to open them, download them, or convert them to HTML.
As for the slower startup time, Firefox is a multi platform application and thus can't use the native Windows toolkit. Instead, it uses the GTK one (AFAIK), which has to be loaded during startup. It will always load slower than an otherwise equally optimized native application.
Edit: I switched Foxit with SumatraPDF, after the ads began to annoy me.
Genocidicbunny
Bug squasher
What ad are you people talking about? The little thingy up in the top right corner that changes every so often? If that annoyed you enough to switch, you have some problems besides not being able to choose a pdf reader.
I won't have advertisements on my computer. Everyone draws the line at some point, and I chose to have no tolerance for ads.
If Foxit was commercial, I might consider buying it, as it stands, it isn't an option for me.
aimeeandbeatles
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I didn't even notice it until you mentioned it. Then I opened up the reader and saw it.
Aha! Good to know, thanks!
Genocidicbunny
Bug squasher
Then you might as well never use Windows Update, or Windows for that matter. How much of the stuff you see there is advertisements?
I know you have to draw a line, and I abhore ads as well. But seriously, a 100x20px ( probably even smaller actually ) icon that you shouldnt even pay attention to because you're reading the pdf is kind of a bad reason to stop using a perfectly good program.
None of it?
And Adobe Reader works fine for me, opening a 900 page pdf takes about 1 second.
aimeeandbeatles
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Well, maybe the rest of us don't have 6 gigs of RAM.
aimeeandbeatles
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Well, it's really slow and clunky on mine.
Foxit *is* commercial for as long as I know it. Buying it not only removes the ad, you can also get the reader Pro, which can edit PDFs.
And that ad is mocking Acrobat Reader (the last version I used has it). Same location, same size.
Foxit is doing the exact same thing as Adobe, only better.
Dida
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my problem with firefox is that it seems to be hogging CPU cycles for some reason. It would continue to use up to 50% of both my CPUs' capacity even after all pages have apparently finished loading. I switched to IE 8 Beta and it seems to run a lot faster than Firefox and does not hog resources.
Low memory usage does not correlate to performance.
