Existing users, 
Adobe Reader
View & print PDF files.
Version: 9.2
Hugely better than v6 but still malware
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: innovia Wednesday, June 22 2005 @ 11:34 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
Much faster than version 6 (which was intolerable), good viewing options and a serious alternative to v5 or Preview now. BUT it hijacks all PDF downloads in Safari and displays them using a plug-in. There's a preference to turn this off but if you use it, the setting endlessly reverts to hijacking mode. I need it for DRM features but really resent having my machine tampered with - not only inconvenient but results in my PDFs being stored in a temporary folder where they're automatically deleted. Hence 1 star for features. A teenage hacker would get taken to court for doing this - why not Adobe?
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Hugely better than v6 but still malware - Edwin-schemer
You can remove the plugin (I actually removed the whole thing) and use the Schubert PDF plugin instead, which does nothing bad, and is free for private/educational users.Monday, June 27 2005 @ 12:40 PM PDT
Can't disable plugin - innovia
Not only does Adobe repeatedly over-ride the user preference not to use Adobe's browser plugin, but if you delete the plugin files, it eventually puts them back. So there really seems to be no way to prevent this behavior. This amounts to hacking my Safari and Preview so I can't use them as I prefer. Adobe must know they're doing this by now - we're on version 7.0.2 - so how do they get away with it?Thursday, July 21 2005 @ 06:42 AM PDT
Can't disable plugin - innovia
Not only does Adobe repeatedly over-ride the user preference not to use Adobe's browser plugin, but if you delete the plugin files, it eventually puts them back. So there really seems to be no way to prevent this behavior. This amounts to hacking my Safari and Preview so I can't use them as I prefer. Adobe must know they're doing this by now - we're on version 7.0.2 - so how do they get away with it?Thursday, July 21 2005 @ 06:45 AM PDT
Hugely better than v6 but still malware - Edwin-schemer
You can remove the plugin (I actually removed the whole thing) and use the Schubert PDF plugin instead, which does nothing bad, and is free for private/educational users.Reply to This
Monday, June 27 2005 @ 12:39 PM PDT