When it comes to PDF viewer, Foxit Reader is always my favorite choice instead of Adobe Reader. Granted, Adobe Reader is definitely a popular Free PDF reader. However the fact that its program alone takes hundreds MB of space (hence slow loading) has been turning off people from continuing to use it. Why bother to use bloated software if there is much smaller application that loads much faster than Adobe Reader?
For those who insist to use Adobe Reader, you may want to consider to use the lite version of the original one; Adobe Reader Lite 9.1. It was done by a talented developer who managed to strip off the unwanted plugins from the official Adobe Reader installation. You can see the list of things that had been removed from the original version after the screenshot.
Adobe Reader Lite 9.1 Features
- Plugins and features that is not required by average users removed
- Start menu shortcut converted to non-advertisement
- Desktop shortcuts and autorun removed
- License Agreement popups and Beyond Adobe removed
- Removed AcroRd32Info.exe therefore no errors filling up the event log
- Auto-update features removed
- Form filling allowed
- Cosmetic changes
- Adobe Reader better dialog-box and “Create PDF using Acrobat.com” disabled from the toolbar
