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chequered maniac
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Why do you need a seperate PDF Reader

I'm most likely going to get some bad comments about this but the way I look at it is, if you have firefox you have a pdf reader in it, or at least you can download it just like a flash player and I'm sure that someone may argue that you'd want a separate one for offline use but I would be fairly sure you can open pdf's when not connected to the net.

But please if there is a blatantly obvious reason to have foxit of sumatra, tell me.
Its more curiosity then an arguement

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Does Firefox

really has a pdf reader built in?
Didnt know that! Wink
I dont think so, though.
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so does firefox have a

so does firefox have a default pdf reader because when i tried opening one it didnt want to. Adobe's reader is just so slow.

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no

its a plugin.
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i like the portable pdf

i like the portable pdf viewer cause acrobat reader is just to slow and my computer only has a gb of mem left so i use my memory stick to store all of my apps. Wink

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No

Its just that if you have Adobe installd FF will open pdfs with it.
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No

Firefox (the non Portable version) uses Adobe's PDF Reader plug-in for Firefox (that almost everybody hate because it does a "dirty" job, slowing down Firefox until you restart it). On Firefox Portable, if you use the Adobe's PDF Reader plug-in you need to have it on the host computer, that's why there is Sumatra PDF Portable, if a computer doesn't have a PDF Reader, you have it.

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BTW

Have you notice how slow is PFirefox to load? Foxit and sumatra loads instantly... If I use PFirefox to read pdf I'm sure I'm going to forget what I was doing when PFirefox is ready to show me the file... Blum

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Extensions then

Thanks for that,

makes sense. What about extensions.
Do they leave trace stuff on the host computer?

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Depends

on the extension Wink
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I use these ones

I use

-download statusbar
-download helper
-fireFTP
-foxytunes
-google browser sync
-google notebook
-ie tab
-no script
-pic lens
-Restarter
-super DragAndGo

anybody know any known issues with any of these. I don't use these with Pfirefox yet but I plan to pretty much have a portable replica of my standard.

So since the pdf reader leaves trace on the hostcomp I'm guessing so do flash and java ?

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So since the pdf reader leaves trace on the hostcomp I'm guessing so do flash and java ?
You have a lot to learn, it seems.

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Man

Your condescending replies are getting old...
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If if someone is condescending here (and I'm not commenting on that), let it go rather than egg them on.

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In all fairness

I'd prefer constructive criticism rather then just judgemental stabs at my intelligence.

I don't understand why people can't ask questions and get answers here. Forums in general are very useful but I can't stand it when people don't allow for ignorance.

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IE isn't portable...

IE Tab executes an instance of IE, so it breaks portability. The Google ones may break portability as well. As for the others, either they're fine or I don't know.

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Good to know

yeah thanks,

from what I know about the google ones they store the data on servers, doesn't mean it doesn't leave trace but it may not. I check it out

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Just to clarify...

Having IE Tab installed will probably not break portability (although I can't say for sure, since I've never even used it). IE is what breaks the portability, not necessarily the extension itself.

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