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# Friday, October 26, 2007

Adobe Acrobat Reader, now less evil

image It appears that while no one was paying attention, Adobe went and fixed Acrobat Reader to be less evil. What does this mean?

  • No more weird Updater5 folder in your Documents folder
  • No more "shortcuts" in your Startup Items folder to make Reader launch faster by having always running processes on your machine.

Get it here.

 

Friday, October 26, 2007 10:22:49 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
Version 8 kind of won me over especially for vista. But then it wanted to install 8.1(when the computer started) so I think they will be back to their evil ways shortly. pity.
Saturday, October 27, 2007 2:13:49 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
It has to get less evil. Foxit is eating its lunch. I'm not yet convinced I should switch back.
Saturday, October 27, 2007 8:35:57 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
While Reader 8 is better, it is slightly more evil because it moves Adobe Reader Speed Loader to the registry instead of the Startup folder. Fire up autoruns and it is under HKLM ... Run. So they tried to hide rather than remove it.

Brian JT
Brian JT
Sunday, October 28, 2007 9:33:37 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
I'd argue that the best feature of 8.1.1 is that it fixes the recently-reported remote code execution vulnerability:

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/3392
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