There are few applications I hate because I consider them rude:
1. Java. Every time I visit a page with Java I can tell because I get an hour glass and everything goes very slow.
2. PDF. I've run across several PDFs that have crashed my browser -- sometimes when I have a lot of different tabs and Windows open. Plus Adobe reader is slow as hell, which I also don't like.
As a result, I don't have Java installed.
But the PDF thing is sometimes a problem with that uninstalled. You can run into things that are PDF only that you really need, like manuals or forms, occasionally.
Sumatra PDF viewer by Krzysztof Kowalczyk
I ran into a free and open source PDF that is not only lightning fast, but it's only 1.1 MB uncompressed and happens to be open source as well (which I really don't care about per se, except that ensures no adware or discontinuation).
It has no file dependencies either and it is super fast.
Now I can hopefully permanently ditch Adobe PDF which has got slower and slower and slower and more bloated and crash prone with every new version.
1. Java. Every time I visit a page with Java I can tell because I get an hour glass and everything goes very slow.
2. PDF. I've run across several PDFs that have crashed my browser -- sometimes when I have a lot of different tabs and Windows open. Plus Adobe reader is slow as hell, which I also don't like.
As a result, I don't have Java installed.
But the PDF thing is sometimes a problem with that uninstalled. You can run into things that are PDF only that you really need, like manuals or forms, occasionally.
Sumatra PDF viewer by Krzysztof Kowalczyk
I ran into a free and open source PDF that is not only lightning fast, but it's only 1.1 MB uncompressed and happens to be open source as well (which I really don't care about per se, except that ensures no adware or discontinuation).
It has no file dependencies either and it is super fast.
Now I can hopefully permanently ditch Adobe PDF which has got slower and slower and slower and more bloated and crash prone with every new version.
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