Comments on: The Adobe upgrade blues (bleg)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:30:53 +0000

Are you really surprised that the browser company (amongst other things) makes a better browser than the hardware company (amongst other things)?

I’d be surprised if I made a better economist than you next week whatever the incentives, but not vice versa.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:13:16 +0000

And thanks Michael S and Ingolf – hv now tried PDF Xchange and so far a bit improvement. It always strikes me as odd that an incumbent like Adobe wouldn’t make sure they had the best software available – they’ve got so much more revenue and, as a result, so much more to lose.

Amazes me whenever I see this phenomenon. As for instance in the iPhone where Android’s browser just eats it if you need to zoom.

By: Peter Patton

Peter Patton — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:59:28 +0000

Wow, thanks Nigel, Michael, and Nicholas. I have been having precisely the same Adobe problems as NG, but now they have all gone away.

By: Ingolf

Ingolf — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:12:01 +0000

Second Michael S. Give it a try, Nicholas . . . . I don’t think you’ll go back.

By: Michael S.

Michael S. — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:14:56 +0000

Nicholas I can’t recommend PDF Xchange viewer enough – do away with Acrobat. If you read a lot of pdfs it is much faster and much more stable

http://download.cnet.com/PDF-XChange-Viewer/3000-10743_4-10598377.html

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:34:28 +0000

PS – I realise now that your command was to be written in the url bar. Then it brings up the plugins menu – and I think if I’d looked further down the page that that brings up I may have been able to disable the Chrome pdf reader, but ENabling the Firefox one worked fine.

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:31:12 +0000

Wonderful James – thanks a lot. Oddly your diagnosis was correct, but your remedy had me going to the wrong menu. For me it was Options/UnderTheHood/ContentSettings/Plugins and then I couldn’t directly disable the Chrome pdf plugin. But when I went to ‘all plugins’ I could ENable the firefox/Netscape PDF plugin which did the trick. Thx again.

By: James A

James A — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 02:03:41 +0000

That’s not an Adobe upgrade, that’s a Chrome upgrade that added a built-in PDF reader. To disable it, go to about:plugins and click Disable underneath the entry for Chrome PDF Viewer.