Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Foxit PDF Reader 3.0 for Windows now works with Firefox
by Brad Linder Nov 24th 2008 at 2:30PM
Last week the Foxit team released version 3.0, with a ton of updates. Possibly the most exiciting is a plugin for Firefox that lets you open documents in your web browser. Adobe has offered this feature for ages, but again, it often takes forever to load. To be honest, the Foxit plugin isn't exactly a speed demon. You may find it faster to download some files and open them in the desktop version of Foxit Reader. But it's nice to have the option of opening them in your browser.
Here are a few other new features:
- Thumbnail previews of each page
- Attachment panel shows list of files attached to a PDF and allows you to open, delete, or perform other actions on them
- The text select tool now also lets you add annotations like highlights, strikeout, or underline
- You can transfer your preference settings by copying an INI file
- New Foxit OnDemand Content Management add-on allows users to share and collaborate on documents online
[via CyberNotes]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Eggbrook said 3:20PM on 11-24-2008
don't you have to pay for foxit pdf reader though? If not I'll gladly give up adobe
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FOREX said 3:56PM on 11-24-2008
Foxit is free... and awesome.
fuzzylollipop said 3:56PM on 11-24-2008
nope the basic reader is free
Hel said 5:45PM on 11-24-2008
Gahahhhh! So many advertisements. No, I don't want your toolbar. No, please don't make my default search provider ask.com. No, I don't need a link on my desktop to Ebay (WTflyingF?) Jeez.
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jfjb said 6:11PM on 11-24-2008
... even the previous version of Foxit worked with the previous version of FireFox. I haven't seen any add-ons, no bull, no nothing -- watch the install procedure, though.
Tell your OS to default to Foxit for PDF files. Instead of reading online, Firefox downloads it automatically and calls Foxit. And unless you're still using a RadioShack acoustic coupler to log on the web, you shouldn't have to wait.
Did I miss something, apart from the updated version of Foxit?
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jfjb said 12:14AM on 11-26-2008
to top it off, the Foxit Reader Update Manager provided a "firefox_plugins_2008.11.20.fzip" but the install stops with a locanic message saying: "Mozilla firefox is not installed"
jfjb said 7:42PM on 11-24-2008
ok, I found out: the Foxit plugin installation tells that (my) FireFox (version 3) is not installed.
It works if and when you copy the "npFoxitReaderPlugin.dll" from your TEMP directory to the :\ \Mozilla Firefox\plugins
Surf's up, dudes and dudettes
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jfjb said 12:09AM on 11-26-2008
nope, the plug-in crashes FF3
Option 1 works (OS select Foxit, DL + read offline, as explained in my 1st post above)
Surf's still up
Taomyn said 8:32AM on 11-25-2008
Where I do agree that Adobe's reader has become bloated and sluggish over the years, they seem to have done something about the performance with v10.
Still has the bloat and you still have to remove a ton of crap from your Windows start-up entries, but it starts up very quickly now.
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Tscharli said 2:38PM on 11-30-2008
more than 50% of foxit-reader-functions only work in the commercial pay-for-it version! better use pdf-xchange viewer - foxit sucks!
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wil said 7:55PM on 11-29-2008
Thanks for the heads up about PDF xchange viewer it works fine. If you combine that that with bullzip to create pdf's (it works as a pdf printer) then you're all set.
Mina said 9:05PM on 1-09-2009
I would also suggest Sumatra PDF. http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ Not my blog, but its where you get the download. It even works on USB thumbdrives and portably. There is also a version of it on http://www.portableapps.com
I find Sumatra PDF is a lot quicker to load and the interface is much simpler. The only thing I have not figured out, is how to make it read pdfs aloud or if it even has that option. I appreciate that its free, however.
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