Did it with .NET - Adobe Free!

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

While giving a talk at the Dayton-Cincinnati Code Camp, my computer started dragging to a crawl—PowerPoint was hung, Visual Studio 2005 wouldn't respond—very bad. I'm comfortable with multi-tasking so I fired up Process Explorer while I continued to introduce the session topic. When Process Explorer was up, the culprit was revealed. Both cores of my CPU were pegged by the Adobe Updater software. Discovering this, I couldn't help pointing out the problem to the audience (with some choice comments) and logged a todo item in the back of my mind to get rid of the Adobe PDF Reader ASAP.

Today, I am Adobe Free. I removed the PDF Reader and the diabolical Adobe Updater. Today I'm running Foxit and I couldn't be happier. It's much faster than Adobe's reader. My machine actually responds as if chains have been removed from it. Thanks Foxit!

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posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:13:41 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Comments [5]

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:25:16 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Welcome to the beginning of the rest of your life. :-)

Sushant Bhatia

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:37:33 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

You know, I actually feel that way. This may go down as one of the major milestones of my life.

Dustin Campbell

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:32:42 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

I took the pledge. I'm Adobe free now too.

Mark Wilson

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:28:52 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

The presentation was great Dustin. I don't expect perfection, just excellence. ;)

I share your pain about Adobe. Lately is just seems too bloated. Thanks for the tip on Foxit. I’ll definitely give it some research.

I'll see you on the 5th.

Justin Kohnen

Thursday, July 05, 2007 7:27:13 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Bloatware. And Adobe doesn't give a shit. I had a similar complaint about Snagit on some blog somewhere and a rep from the company actually contacted me about my complaint. I explained that if your UI is so complex you actually have to overlay animated instructions in order to understand it, why would I ever want to use the product to take a quick snapshot of the desktop? I pointed her to Cropper as an example of an unobtrusive product that does what it needs to and gets the hell out of my way otherwise. Foxit does that. Adobe fails to. That's why I run Foxit on my personal dev machine.

mgurk

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