Comments on: Replace Adobe Acrobat Reader FOREVER!!! http://thetestingblog.com/2010/07/06/replace-adobe-acrobat-reader-forever/ Why, testing, of course! Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:51:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: thomaus http://thetestingblog.com/2010/07/06/replace-adobe-acrobat-reader-forever/#comment-457 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:33:44 +0000 http://thetestingblog.com/?p=418#comment-457 You summed up my feelings pretty well. Between Flash and Acrobat, Adobe give the impression to people that use their software, that they don’t matter. We use modern operating systems that should rarely need to reboot, except for Adobe and their security/bug updates.

I work in graphics and use the Creative Suite, so I’m forced to keep Acrobat loaded, and pay for the privilege to keep rebooting for Adobe’s faulty software engineering.

]]> By: Daniel Brown http://thetestingblog.com/2010/07/06/replace-adobe-acrobat-reader-forever/#comment-422 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:01:22 +0000 http://thetestingblog.com/?p=418#comment-422 Yes, exactly, Marlena! You can do a lot of things to a user, and they will keep coming back. But if you take them over that threshold of “Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It”, you’ve lost them forever.

]]> By: Marlena Compton http://thetestingblog.com/2010/07/06/replace-adobe-acrobat-reader-forever/#comment-416 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:14:56 +0000 http://thetestingblog.com/?p=418#comment-416 I call this slit-my-wrists annoying. There is no data loss, but user goodwill is lost forever.

]]> By: Daniel Brown http://thetestingblog.com/2010/07/06/replace-adobe-acrobat-reader-forever/#comment-414 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:30:34 +0000 http://thetestingblog.com/?p=418#comment-414 Very cool, Green! I’ll have to check that out!

]]> By: Daniel Brown http://thetestingblog.com/2010/07/06/replace-adobe-acrobat-reader-forever/#comment-413 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:30:01 +0000 http://thetestingblog.com/?p=418#comment-413 Eusebiu, I’m reminded of the words of a great singer, songwriter, “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn.” If it’s software there are going to be problems somewhere, whether it’s Windows or Linux or Mac OS. :)

]]> By: Daniel Brown http://thetestingblog.com/2010/07/06/replace-adobe-acrobat-reader-forever/#comment-412 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:21:51 +0000 http://thetestingblog.com/?p=418#comment-412 Thanks for the contribution Corey. It’s good to know that there’s tons of solutions to rid yourself of Adobe. Sumatra looks really lightweight, which I like. It’s cool that you can run it without install, registration, etc. But I don’t think it’s a full replacement of Adobe because of it’s lack of browser plugin support. I don’t want to have to download a pdf just to view it. Aside from the browser thing, it’s cool. Thanks man!

]]> By: Corey http://thetestingblog.com/2010/07/06/replace-adobe-acrobat-reader-forever/#comment-411 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:38:39 +0000 http://thetestingblog.com/?p=418#comment-411 check out Sumatra. It is an open source pdf reader that i like. lightweight.. free… no-nags.

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html

]]> By: Green2 http://thetestingblog.com/2010/07/06/replace-adobe-acrobat-reader-forever/#comment-410 Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:34:48 +0000 http://thetestingblog.com/?p=418#comment-410 Another thing I like about Foxit is that I can annotate and bookmark the PDF file I’m reading with it :)

]]> By: Eusebiu Blindu http://thetestingblog.com/2010/07/06/replace-adobe-acrobat-reader-forever/#comment-408 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:28:00 +0000 http://thetestingblog.com/?p=418#comment-408 I think your problem is Windows :)
If you were using Ubuntu for example you wouldn’t have this problem.

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