- It's slow and ugly.
- It integrates itself into my browser without asking me during install.
- The Adobe browser plugin will pop up dialog boxes under multiple other windows, making the entire browser unresponsive until I can find it and tell it to just open the damn PDF.
- It begs to be updated constantly, frequently trying to get me to download other Adobe products I don't want and don't need.
- There are a slew of screen-cluttering icons taking up precious screen real estate across the top of the screen.
Here's a shocker for you, Adobe... I hate your damn PDF files. I hate them. Give me straight HTML any day. It's faster to search and scroll through, usually easier on the eyes, and easily created and modified.
However, I'm frequently required to deal with your damn PDF files.
All I want is from your reader is for it to read PDF files. That's it. Your installer downloads 20MB of data to do a task that could be done with overkill in 5MB.
So, I'm wondering--what alternative PDF readers do people use? I can't be the only person unwilling to deal with Adobe's atrocious Reader. If you have an opinion, please let me know.
Update: In case you care (and I'm sure you don't) I found this on Digg not long after I posted. Strangely, I'd already downloaded and installed the program in the blog post by the time I found the review.
