Tag: FOXIT

I got a heads-up email today that Foxit Reader -- one of the most widely-used Adobe Reader alternatives -- had released a new version. Curious, I headed over to the site to download and install the new version. After all, Foxit's popularity means our readers might be interested in reading about a major version update. During the installer's first couple of screens, the Ask toolbar was offered ...

Whenever we run a post about yet another security hole in Adobe Reader, commenters chime in with their support for Foxit's free alternative. If you've been singing its praises for security reasons, think again says security pro Didier Stevens. Foxit, it turns out, has a rather major flaw right now. An attacker can piggyback and launch an executable within a PDF which Foxit will then run ...

Foxit Reader 2.3 has just been released, and not only is it quicker and lighter on system resources than Adobe Reader, but the latest version adds a ton of useful features like tabbed viewing. For some reason tabs took the web browser world by storm a few years ago, but failed to catch on in other applications. But if you spend a lot of time reading PDF files, we don't have to tell you how much ...

We spend a lot of time reading PDF documents here at Download Squad HQ, so we're always on the lookout for full featured PDF viewers that don't take as long to load as Adobe Reader. We've looked at Foxit and Sumatra in the past, and we've been pretty happy. The other day when we wrote about another solution, Adobe Reader Lite, which strips some unnecessary plugins from Adobe Reader to improve ...

Adobe may have innovated the PDF file format, but Foxit Reader is our favorite application for reading PDFs. That's because it's light-weight and blazing fast. You can open and close Foxit 2 or 3 times in the amount of time it takes Adobe Reader to load. But while Foxit is light in terms of resources, it's also been a bit feature-light when it comes to things like copying text. Foxit 2.2 has an ...

It's no secret that while Adobe created the PDF format, Adobe Reader isn't exactly what you'd call an efficient tool for reading PDF files. In the past our solution has been to install the lightweight and free Foxit Reader. But there might be another solution out there. Prevent all those plugins that load up with Adobe Reader from running. Adobe Reader Speedup is a little application that lets ...

While Adobe may have invented the PDF format, it's no secret that Adobe Reader is a bloated program that runs slowly on most computers. We're big fans of Foxit as a lightweight alternative that opens PDF files in a flash. But the How-To Geek just turned us on to Sumatra PDF viewer, an even smaller free and open source PDF viewer. Sumatra is a single 802KB executable file for Windows. No ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/How_to_print_just_about_anything_to_PDF_for_free'; One of our favorite programs here at Download Squad HQ is Foxit Reader. It's basically a replacement for Adobe Acrobat. Foxit reads PDF files, and that's about it. But boy does it do it well. Adobe Reader can take 30 seconds or longer to load, and tends to bog down Firefox or Internet Explorer when you want ...

Yesterday I started waiting for an Adobe Acrobat PDF file to open. I am still waiting for the thing to open. Alright, you got me, I actually end-tasked it, 86'd it, killed the process, you get the idea. I don't have the time or patience to put up with that. Adobe Acrobat Reader has some issues, like loading a file quickly, not crashing the browser, things like that. Foxit Reader puts Adobe Acrobat ...