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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: June 19, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,759,934
- Downloads last week: 9,126
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 817 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 PDF viewer that launches instantly without any delay. You are not forced to view an annoying splash window displaying company logo, author names, etc.
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User reviews of Foxit Reader 3.0 build 1817
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 817 votes
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.0 build 1817
Pros: you just install it and that's it
Cons: I didn't find anything
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.0 build 1817
"There is no cause, I like it better than acrobat."
Pros: Faster performance.
Cons: Not at all.
Summary: Acrobat installer has no offline installer now. Foxit is small in size and has portable facility.
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.0 build 1817
"works fine and uses few resources"
Pros: Runs consuming very little amount of memory and processor capacity
Cons: is limited in secondary functions like voice reading
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Version: Foxit Reader 3.0 build 1817
Pros: Faster than Acrobat. Much faster
Cons: Issues with Vista and Firefox.
In Vista triggers User Access Control everytime...very annoying.
Does not open PDF files with firefox only IE. -
Version: Foxit Reader 3.0 build 1817
"Foxit is easy to load and translates PDF files quickly"
Pros: It doesn't seem to have the memory requirement that Adobe does so it operates much more readily.
Cons: Haven't seen any problem areas.
Summary: It;'s easy to load and just works every time.
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