Foxit Reader

The start page (which you rarely see), is 75% covered with ads for Foxit products. You can edit the html file for the start page, and/or delete JPG files for ads, but it's a bunch of trouble. The funny thing is, the program has an option to turn off advertising. It doesn't work. On top of that, there's a registry key you can change to zero to supposedly get rid of the ads. They probably reduce the advertising. They don't eliminate it.

Otherwise, like the program so far. It works, unlike Cool PDF reader. It's not TOO terribly bloated, and yet it will read PDF files aloud.

Good reader. Has good note taking capability (Typewriter). Pretty snappy to use. But wastes space with the tab bar. Limited image extraction (screen-cap).

After having some troubles with Adobe Reader opening anything or taking way to long to open I decided to install and try this out. Perfect.

I like Foxit Reader because it's good enough and available as portable version (via portableapps.com), so I can carry it on USB stick along with other "swiss-knife" software.

Foxit Reader, like a lot of other softwares, asks you if you want to change your homepage and install a toolbar: if you don't want them, all you have to do is uncheck those options in setup.

ADWARE ALERT : It installs an adware toolbar into your browser.

I absolutely love this program. I'm a student, and a lot of articles/books I need to read are in .pdf. Gave it a try after finding it here as an alternative to Adobe, which was getting far too large, had such a slow and ugly layout, and limited functions I wanted to paid versions. I've recommended this to everyone I know and will never go back.