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The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through The Years (2025) (adobe acrobat software bloat timeline) (sigwait.org | ia)
6 points by splorp 51 days ago | 2 comments
  • shdon 43 days ago
    I'd been using Foxit PDF reader because of its small size and corresponding fast startup speed. That has ballooned to 200MB now as well, and I'm now using the PDF support built in to the browser (Firefox being my browser of choice). Firefox is, as of today, a 68MB download for the installer, and it does a while lot more than display PDFs.

    A little disgusting that Adobe creates a file literally 10x the size of a full-featured browser yet having a small subset of the functionality.

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  • KODust 50 days ago
    All that weight to support such a shitty UX.

    PDF was so painful until Mac OS X came along with (a) the Preview app to make it actually nice to read the documents, albeit not supporting every feature; and (b) universal support for printing to PDF files.

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