Foxit Reader 4.2.0.928

Rated 10/50 by Chocobito at Mar 14, 2009

Its a shame in what its become Foxit Reader, until version 2.X this was a fast and light software, but now its full of nag and other crapware. Im really shame about it. Its time to try other PDF Reader, Foxit no more.

Rated 50/50 by uzi at Mar 30, 2009

Foxit reader is a much better replacement for Adobe. Most of the problems it had in former versions are now solved. One should be careful during the installation if one wants Foxit to be free from an irrelevant toolbar, an irrelevant shortcut to e-bay. During installation, choose custom installation, then choose not to install the Foxit toolbar, and in the next installation screen choose not to add shortcuts to e-bay. Now, the only remained thing is to open the program, and under the vuew menu to uncheck the advertisement. This will permanently disable the internal advertisement, and will let Foxit be free from nagging/unwanted things.

Rated 50/50 by Zanyth0x42 at Jun 19, 2009

Great PDF Viewer, nice, lightweight and fast, great plugin for Firefox etc;

Rated 50/50 by statm1 at Jun 19, 2009

I don't really see whats bad about it. Its still tremendously faster and less bloated then Adobe and it opens and lets you read PDFs. What do you want from it? It does what it was made to do.

Rated 10/50 by bigmama at Jun 19, 2009

i agree that has become worse than the original. if you want an alternative portable and free pdf reader try sumatra

Rated 10/50 by Juhandra at Jun 19, 2009

Has become worse than the original.

Rated 40/50 by STDUSupport at Jun 22, 2009

Good software. But STDU Viewer from stdutility.com more better. And can read images and DjVu files.

Rated 50/50 by egg83 at Jun 22, 2009

Really like this program, lightweight, and not bloated like Adobe, deserves 6 stars. Some may not like the program, that is why they have the uninstaller.

Rated 50/50 by GrailKnight at Jun 22, 2009

Still a fine program and anyone saying that it is worse then the original without giving any reasons are just talking trash. Do not click through the install and you will be fine.

Rated 10/50 by anomoly at Jun 30, 2009

No need to install period as there is a compressable portable version. Has too many dead pro options with the "if you do not want to see this again, click here bs" boxes. Advertising is built into the help menu, and Foxit's claims of it being secure and not accessing the internet without asking is PURE BS. All you have to do is open the help menu & it's already reaching without asking I might add.. Looks a 1000 % better than I remember but is an advertising LOAD of crap. I'll stick with pdfxchange. At least they aren't trying to sell you something that has nothing to do with pdf's whatsoever. And pdfxchange never asks until u do.

Rated 50/50 by Virtual_ManPL at Jul 22, 2009

Lightweight PDF viewer...

Rated 50/50 by powmetguy at Aug 19, 2009

"Foxit is easy to load and translates PDF files quickly" It doesn't seem to have the memory requirement that Adobe does so it operates much more readily. Haven't seen any problem areas. It;'s easy to load and just works every time.

Rated 30/50 by nmalhotr at Aug 20, 2009

"Older builds were better." Faster than Acrobat. Much faster Issues with Vista and Firefox. In Vista triggers User Access Control everytime...very annoying.Does not open PDF files with firefox only IE.

Rated 40/50 by pedrofdz at Aug 21, 2009

"works fine and uses few resources" Runs consuming very little amount of memory and processor capacity is limited in secondary functions like voice reading

Rated 50/50 by enzo53 at Aug 23, 2009

"easy to be used" you just install it and that's it I didn't find anything

Rated 50/50 by onog33 at Aug 23, 2009

"There is no cause, I like it better than acrobat." Faster performance. Not at all. Acrobat installer has no offline installer now. Foxit is small in size and has portable facility.

Rated 50/50 by Ryusennin at Aug 24, 2009

"there is no way to turn off the internal ads" Right-click on any toolbar > Advertisement

Rated 30/50 by uzi at Aug 24, 2009

I am quite disapponted with the direction Foxit took lately. Version 3.0 is excellent if you are careful enough not to install the unwanted "value added" things, during the installation. Version 3.1 took things further that way. Now it really goes in the direction of becoming a bloatware. Who needs an internet search bar inside a PDF viewer? and now it seems that there is no way to turn off the internal ads (in version 3.0 there is). Now when I reverted back to version 3.0, it practically means that the version I use will no longer be maintained.

Rated 50/50 by Infidelus at Aug 24, 2009

Nice little app that I've been using for ~3 years now. No installer required, just run the exe. Does what it says on the tin, and no crap bloatware like Adobe. Never liked the Pointless Document Format anyway, but if I absolutely have to use it, Foxit scores a win here. 5/5 from me

Rated 50/50 by Virtual_ManPL at Aug 25, 2009

5/5 @ uzi - you can disable small ads like Ryusennin said... and if you dont want bloadware simply download ZIP pack or extract from MSI... ;)