PDF is usually associated with Adobe. And that’s perfectly natural as the PDF format is created by Adobe Systems way back in 1993. And most often than not, Adobe Reader is the software that is used to read PDF documents.
Over the years, Adobe Reader has grown both in features and size. As of now, Adobe Reader 8.1 for Windows XP is a 22.3 MB download and after installation, it takes up 115 MB (according to the Add and Remove Programs statistics).
The huge size also means that starting it up takes quite a while. Version 8 does some tricks to speed this up, by starting up together with your system but not showing itself until needed. This works but it does take away some of your computer’s resources as well.
The good news is Adobe Reader is not the only free PDF reader available. In fact there are quite a few available. After my last post on Firefox, I bring you another foxy software – Foxit Reader 2.0!
Foxit Reader 2.0 is a free PDF document viewer, that is just only a 1.5 M download and after installation takes less than 4 MB!
It loads fast and all the things you likely need it to do. So, if you don’t require any of the special adobe reader functionalities, which most of us won’t, Foxit Reader will do more than just fine!
Save some of your computer’s resources and try out Foxit Reader now!
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