I use a combination of Sumatra PDF and Foxit since they're both good at different tasks.
I prefer Foxit over Adobe or Sumatra as a normal PDF reader but the reason I use Sumatra PDF as well is because I make PDFs in LaTeX with TeXnicCenter. The latest Sumatra integrates with TeXnicCenter and automatically refreshes the PDF whenever you change the document. With Foxit, you have to manually close the document and re-open it to see your changes. If I'm also viewing other papers at the same time, I can't just close Foxit, I have to close the particular tab of the document I'm working on, switch back to TeXnicCenter and press F5 to make it reload the document. Pain in the ***.
Foxit's a good replacement for Adobe Reader, but because it also has a lot of the same interactive functionality as Adobe, it is also vulnerable to the some of the same
recent exploits as Adobe. To their credit, I believe Foxit has fixed these. Still, if you're switching to it for improved security, just realize that no software is invulnerable to exploits.
I'm using Linux, so I tend to forget sometimes how much of a hassle windows updates can be
Have you ever used Gentoo? It was the first Linux I tried and I couldn't stand that updates could take hours or even days because it has to compile everything.
However, the Linux crowd are a flaming bunch of hypocrites in this respect because they push for /root restrictions on Linux while not comprehending that the corollary on Windows accomplishes much in the same.
Problem is that a lot of Windows software was designed with the assumption that the user is always running with administrator privileges, which means that it was inconvenient at best to run as a limited user. It's getting better; the only software I have that needs admin rights is my DVD burning application. I'd love to have a su / sudo in Windows though.
PDF is an open standard. Why isn't the support native? I guess I've always just taken it for granted that I can click on a PDF link and it opens up normally, like any other web page. Wow. I thought that capability was ubiquitous.
I prefer my own choice for a PDF viewer, not what the OS or browser decided for me. I imagine that on Macs the browser hooks into Preview to show PDFs. Since Windows doesn't come with Preview, you just need to install other software that the browser can hook into, so it ends up working in a similar manner. There's also the issue of whether Adobe would try to sue Microsoft if they included a PDF viewer for abuse of monopoly, in the same way that Netscape did in response to Internet Explorer.
