Solution to slow-opening PDFs and Adobe Acrobat crashing your browser
Via Anil Dash, the solution to a long-standing annoyance of mine. Adobe is in a tight race with Microsoft for feature bloat, as evidenced by the ridiculous start-up time of Adobe Reader. Add to that the fact that viewing PDFs in your browser crashes the damn thing about 50% of the time, and basically I want to urinate on the entire PDF standard. But on to the solution:
- If you have Adobe Reader 6, upgrade to 7. It’s actually less bloated.
- Use Adobe Reader SpeedUp to disable all of the useless plugins that Adobe Reader loads on startup.
- Disable Adobe Reader from displaying PDFs in your browser. You know it’s just asking for trouble. In Adobe Reader 7, go to Edit > Preferences, select Internet, and uncheck the box for “Display PDF in browser.”
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
I am very happy for the range of serices of adobe in every concern.
Thank you for adobe services
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
“Thank you for adobe services”? Wow. Adobe reader is a terrible piece of software, just look at the criticisms section on the wiki page. I thought it might have gotten better in the last couple versions, but if anything it has gotten worse.
Try foxit instead, much faster and more reliable. At least until apple makes a windows version of preview.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
The newest version of Adobe Reader (9 at the time of writing) is extremely quick on every system I’ve tested it on. They seem to have greatly reduced the bloat and startup times on the newer versions.
Let’s hope it lasts and they don’t get bored and return it to the bloatware it was once becoming!
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