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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- Date added: November 26, 2009
- Total Downloads: 5,106,993
- Downloads last week: 214,555
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 900 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on December 08, 2008
To put it gently, Adobe Reader is a real pain in the hindquarters. It's monstrously large, slow to load, and includes many features most users will hardly ever need. Foxit PDF Reader 3.0 kills the bloat and throws in some useful features, such as multimedia support and content-sharing options, while still allowing you to quickly access your PDFs.
The interface mimics Adobe's, so you won't have to change your reading habits. In our test, the text readability was similar. The small program starts surprisingly fast compared with Adobe. You might need to fiddle a bit to get it to work with your Internet browser, but you can find help on Foxit's support forums. It's a nice touch that it opens PDFs from the Internet in their own Foxit window, instead of sucking resources from within the browser.
Foxit's biggest flaw in the old version was hogging memory and that has been corrected. Recent updates include fixing the hyperlink problem, multimedia support, printing highlighted-only sections, and tabbed PDF browsing, so you can read multiple PDFs simultaneously and with ease. Overall, unless you're tied to Adobe we strongly recommend this freeware competitor.
Publisher's description
From Foxit Software :Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. In the past, you've had to download a huge PDF reader from another software company, go through a lengthy installation process and wait for an annoying splash window to disappear just to open a PDF document.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.1.4.1125 is a maintenance release.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 900 votes
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
Pros: Replaces Adobe PDF. I get my faxes at myfax.com as PDF files. Foxit opens them every time and quickly too. Can't be beat for my business.
Cons: It is too small a nd opens too quick and it isn't bloated.
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
Pros: small, fast startup
Cons: also had to use task manager to kill program.
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
"Good replacement for Adobe Reader."
Pros: Uses less memory, has read every pdf file I've asked it to open.
Cons: No problems so far.
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
"Good Acrobat Reader replacement"
Pros: This version seems more stable than previous additions, which pretty regularly crashed my Firefox. Quicker, lighter and livelier than AR, but still provides same or better functionality. Does just what it says it will--replaces AR
Cons: So far I haven't found anything to dislike about it.
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
"Good product, but virus scanner finds a virus"
Pros: Easy to use, comes up quickly
Cons: I installed on 2 different computers with 2 different virus scanners. Both said it contained a trojan horse virus.
Summary: Scan it before installing to be sure.
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