jroc Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 I read in Redmond (a Microsoft mag. They have a website called redmondmag.com) a section called "Productivity On The Go". It was about portable apps. For a split second I thought of uT then said naw, its a torrent app. Why would it be here? Then on the next page there it was.So expect even more newcomers to uTorrent in the upcoming months. Sidenote: The Redmond mag seems ok. I thought it would be all Microsoft jock riding, but its not. They do have some articles critical of MS in there. And some of these folks work for MS. One thing I did find funny in there was a "Best Of" awards section. (its in the same mag as the portable apps) One award was called "Best browser not IE". Firefox was 1st place, I cant remember what was second.Why not have the award just called "Best browser"? lol The current issue w/uTorrent & the "Best Of" awards in it :http://redmondmag.com/issue/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenkaz Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 I love how they refer to Adope Reader as "criminally bloated" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefarious Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 One thing I did find funny in there was a "Best Of" awards section. (its in the same mag as the portable apps) One award was called "Best browser not IE". Firefox was 1st place, I cant remember what was second.Why not have the award just called "Best browser"? lolcauze if they make a "best browser" they wont have an excuse why IE isnt mentioned? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jroc Posted May 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Yea I use Foxit. Blazingly fast at showing .pdf's. For a long time I thought that .pdf's were slow. All this time it was Adobe!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 That's the same exact impression I had with PDFs a long time ago, and I generally avoided PDFs if possible, until I found Foxit. The text quality could be better, as it seems a bit blurry, but nothing I care too much about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 I use Foxit reader as well, and I really like it.the only thing missing is the ability to open pdf files within firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenkaz Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 Theres an extension for that Well, not totally, but it does give you more options handling pdf files: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/636/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 I prefer NOT having Firefox open PDFs. It's slow/bloated enough as is, PDFs would just make it go even sloooowweeeerrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 Frankly, I never understood the whole view-PDFs-in-your-browser concept. You're still not working in the browser's native interface, so what's the point? Just open it in the actual program and get it over with -- the plugin still loads the application's bloated rendering engine and whatnot in the background anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hofshi Posted May 10, 2006 Report Share Posted May 10, 2006 the advantage is when the pdf file is a big file and/or the download is slow.when the pdf viewing inside FF is supported, you can start viewing the pdf when only the first page is downloaded.if you use an external app for that, you have to wait for the whole file to download.besides, I still find it more convenient to view the pdf from within my browser.Thanks, Yenkaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted May 11, 2006 Report Share Posted May 11, 2006 Bleh I rarely use PDFs, and when I do, I never seem to have trouble grabbing them anyhow. Additionally, I'm never in such a big hurry enough to need view the first page immediately, so it'd still be useless to me ;P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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