I read about this nifty little application called Foxit Reader on one of my listservs. It was recommened as an alternative to Adobe Reader (sorry, it’s for Windows machines only!).

I absolutely hate the Adobe Reader. I am not sure why I continuly have problems. I am religious about keeping up to date with software. I’m so fast about it, that when Macromedia (back when it was Macromedia) offered a backpack for the first few hundred or so to upgrade to MX, I got one! (Well, Kerri got it ultimately, but that’s another blog.)

The latest issue I had was that every time I tried to open a pdf file in FF, the whole thing would stop running. Oh, task manager said it was running, but it wasn’t running. I had to kill it through task manager, and, since I couldn’t restore the session when I reopened task manager, I would lose whatever browser windows I had open (yes, I know, I know, just use the history side, but that’s not the point). Fortunately, FF has an option to r-click and select “View page in External Application”.

However, now that I have Foxit downloaded and installed, opening pdf files is quick and painless. No, I’m not an affiliate or reseller. Just a pleased end-user.