Foxit Reader: an alternative for Acrobat Reader
There are times that you are gazing the monitor of your computer waiting for it for hours to respond after you launched an ENORMOUS and heavy application that all it has to do is just open a document and display it on your screen?
If you still haven’t got what I’m talking about, the "whale" software is none other than Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The program is about 22 Megs to download (or even more) and is occupying 130 Megs on your hard drive when installed. Beyond that when it is launched it displays the annoying splash screen with company logo, author names etc and loads tons of plugins that in most cases they are useless for the simple user that all that he wants is to open the PDF document and read it or even search text in it.
The worst case is when you are surfing on the internet and you accidentally click on a link to a PDF file. Then the whole system freezes, your browser is not responding and you cannot press the back button.
The best solution to all this is Foxit Reader.
The product is available for Windows and Linux. It is only a single executable file about 5.5 Megs uncompressed and it is designed to be lightweight reliable and fast. And above all, it is free.
You can get it at http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
