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- Neiby, on 12/13/2008, -10/+268I use FoxIT Reader instead of Adobe Reader. It's fast and doesn't slow my PC down like Adobe Reader does. Still, this is a pretty cool feature.
- ploik, on 12/13/2008, -10/+231Google will control everything.
- blueandgreen24, on 12/13/2008, -9/+108Preview > all other PDF readers
- langzaiguy, on 12/13/2008, -0/+70Will it let me know that there are updates available? I love updating Adobe every time I use it. I need these constant reminders.
- domfosnz, on 12/13/2008, -0/+70This is a great addition to Gmail. It was a pain in the ass when you could not view the pdf without downloading it first.
- CalcProgrammer1, on 12/13/2008, -3/+49Now Google needs to make a PDF reader for everything else (local application). Adobe is super bloated, Foxit is nicer but still has some commercial annoying ads on it, a Google PDF reader wouldn't have ads and would be free and eventually would be ported to Linux and Mac. The only downside is that it'd be beta for 5 years, but that wouldn't stop me from using it.
- xerigen, on 12/13/2008, -0/+27I noticed this the other day. I emailed my self some .pdf study material so I could print it at the computer lab and was so happy when I could just click 'view' and not 'download'. Bravo, gmail.
- yuanzhoulu, on 12/13/2008, -2/+28i think it's more because computers have gotten faster.
and watch, they'll make it slower next time because they'll do some stupid alpha-opacity splash screen, fancify all the buttons, etc.
i use evince for most of my pdf viewing - TMTurtle, on 12/13/2008, -2/+20We can only hope.
- jaygeeze, on 12/13/2008, -3/+19PDF support on Gmail is one of the major lacking features I've seen with it. This is great!
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -1/+17Wouldn't have ads?
This is google we're talking about, ya? - Vikesrock, on 12/13/2008, -0/+15It's a web app......
- neutronphaser, on 12/13/2008, -1/+15And store it for 9,000,000 years.
- kjcdude, on 12/13/2008, -1/+14i love the new viewer, i use it for all my pdf and office documents
- jeffehobbs, on 12/13/2008, -0/+12You're not a lot of fun at parties, I'm betting.
- UnWeave, on 12/13/2008, -1/+13On my home PC, it would probably actually be quicker to save a PDF to my HDD, upload it again, email it to myself, and open it in Gmail than use Adobe Reader. Thanks Google!
- AramisBear, on 12/13/2008, -2/+13Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
- inactive, on 12/13/2008, -0/+11My problem with foxit is no embedded function in firefox, and for whatever reason(this likely is a local issue) it hangs for like 30 seconds if I hit print before the print dialogue comes up.
- Izzio, on 12/13/2008, -3/+14Adobe Reader 9 works well for me. It's much faster than previous versions and sometimes renders the PDF better than Foxit.
- boner79, on 12/13/2008, -4/+15adobe sucks
- mwahaha, on 12/13/2008, -2/+13If you use Firefox on a Mac you should check out http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/ . It lets you use the fast Preview pdf viewing code (pdfkit) to view embedded pdfs etc.
- Nintendesert, on 12/13/2008, -1/+11It's a spiderweb.
- ProfBagelwood, on 12/13/2008, -0/+10But it's so much trendier, rebellious, and shocking to talk smack about Google, never mind that they've been one of the open source movement's biggest supporters and a huge proponent of open standards, open radio spectrum, etc. Never forget that the best way to sound like you're more hardcore than everybody else is to talk down to anything that lots of your own peers admire!
- SuperMoses, on 12/14/2008, -0/+10+1 for Sumatra. Lightweight and open source.
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: : : : : : :¯’’~~~~~~’’’ : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : | : : : : : : : : : - lvizon, on 12/13/2008, -5/+14No, thanks.
Preview.app works just fine in OS X. - snupples, on 12/13/2008, -1/+10I have a mac too, but you're sounding like a prick there.
This article has nothing to do with OS, btw. - defenswens26, on 12/13/2008, -5/+14Is adobe still slow for a lot of people? Since I've upgraded to adobe reader 9 its been a hell of a lot faster.
- HueytheFreeman, on 12/13/2008, -1/+10I always thought it was amusing how adobe reader takes a long time to open a pdf but adobe acrobat 9 takes barely a second to open a pdf... It's like they have two completely different teams working on different pdf viewers.
- philojustin, on 12/13/2008, -0/+9The reason being is your browser does not natively support PDF. That comes as a plugin, which is basically the same thing as the full blown program. Therefore, Acrobat is opening up the PDF within your browser which lot's of people don't like.
- BrendanJB, on 12/14/2008, -0/+9I can't wait for the day when google becomes self aware
- inkswamp, on 12/13/2008, -4/+12Google PDF reader on the desktop? Thanks but no.
I don't know about PDF readers for Linux, but Macs ship with Preview which views PDFs and kicks the living crap out of that slug of an application Acrobat Reader. And given Google's lackluster history of desktop software, I'm going to cross my fingers that they keep their PDF reader as a Web-only feature. - fegul, on 12/13/2008, -1/+9That's because there's a component of it that starts up with your computer already if you havent manually disabled it (Adobe Speed Launcher) Take a look in msconfig.
- yomamaphat, on 12/14/2008, -1/+9I used to use FoxIt but switched to Sumatra, it's even lighter weight. Less compatibility though, but it's worth it to me. It's only 1 file, just the executable. It creates a prefs file. That's my kind of app. It's also open source.
- Crimsoneer, on 12/13/2008, -2/+10and it will be awesome.
- digginghacker, on 12/13/2008, -0/+7What you said.
- CalcProgrammer1, on 12/13/2008, -0/+7Google has online ads (AdSense) but look at Chrome. It's a pretty good desktop application, made by Google, that has no advertising other than the web ads that would appear in any browser without an ad-blocking plugin.
- clickwir, on 12/13/2008, -1/+8It's a webpage.
- clickwir, on 12/13/2008, -0/+7slow and has some weird installer. You download this small file, then it downloads some more, then it "unpacks" for 4 hours and installs who knows what.... and it's still slow.
FoxIT reader when I'm in windows is great.
Otherwise I use Okular, it's better than I first though. - flange, on 12/14/2008, -0/+6An in-browser PDF reader that won't kill my Firefox hotkeys. Very nice.
- smackydoodle, on 12/13/2008, -3/+9Have been using Gmail for 3 years and just when I start IMAPing my email to Thunderbird, Gmail gets all these cool additions. Damn my bad timing!
- lmbb20, on 12/14/2008, -0/+6I love Google.
- deadbaby, on 12/14/2008, -0/+6Admitting you use IE these days is kinda like getting caught with tranny porn open on your computer. It's OK if you want to do it but you probably shouldn't talk about it.
- BossKey, on 12/13/2008, -0/+6Don't know about Windows but the last couple versions of Acrobat launch far faster on the Mac than before...on the same hardware. So it isn't the hardware. Looks like optimization. A lot of Mac users still cling to the old idea that Apple Preview is a faster PDF reader, but that isn't true today.
- bsmang, on 12/13/2008, -0/+6Great, a new poop scooper.
- Chronicgaming, on 12/13/2008, -0/+6Adobe Reader 9 is fine for me, it seems like the performance has been progressively better during the last few revisions.
- Frozo, on 12/13/2008, -0/+5Gotcha, makes sense. Thanks.
- toshimonkey, on 12/13/2008, -1/+6Adobe is ridiculous, it's honestly the slowest running program on my PC, and it wants to install updates every other day. All this just to view a damn text document. I remember back in the days of floppy disks, it took about 2 seconds to install and run Adobe. I don't know what they hell they did to ***** it up.
- R031E5, on 12/14/2008, -0/+5"Google will control everything"... before you know it.
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