Nov
21
2004
Speed Up Adobe Reader

Sometime during the past year or so, the humble Adobe Acrobat Reader (or Adobe Reader, or whatever it’s branded as these days) turned into a gigantic piece of bloatware that takes 20 seconds to fire up any time you want to view a simple PDF online. Here’s how to speed it up. I wish I looked for this solution sooner… I had thought it was just something to do with the way it plugged into Firefox. I guess I should have known Reader was getting bloated when I saw an ad for the utterly unrelated Yahoo Toolbar built into the user interface. I guess Acrobat is going the way of RealPlayer these days. We all know that worked out so well for Real.

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