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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 26, 2009
- Total Downloads: 4,167,782
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 810 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.
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Version 3.1.4.1125 is a maintenance release.
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
Pros: It does seem like a good, fast, lightweight PDF reader.
Cons: The installation routine tries to install all sorts of other junk.
Summary: As noted, it looks like a good little reader. I haven't had it long enough to give it a workout. I don't like the installation routine. It tries to install all sorts of unrelated junk. I thought that I had selected no for all of the other stuff ... read more >>
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.1.4.1125
"just great ! installed on all my pcs"
Pros: miniscule in size & opens in the blink of an eye. A real winner!
Cons: none found yet!
Summary: I don't get it, how can foxit do in 5megs what it takes Adobe 130megs - this product is a winner; I've installed it on all 7 PCs around the family and deleted Adobe with no regrets to-date
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