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Most of us have been using Adobe’s Acrobat Reader for a long time. What have you noticed? Before, you’ve had to download a huge installer file, wait for an annoying splash window to disappear when you open a document and the application itself has a slow response.

I came across this neat FREE software from Foxit called Foxit Reader. It’s incredibly small (about 2.5Mb), fast, has a text converter and also has high security and privacy, and more. I’ve already tried it and it’s nice. It has all the features that you need from Adobe’s version.

Download Foxit Reader for Windows from this link.

I recently upgraded to Firefox version 3. Unfortunately NOT ALL add-ons are working. I’d have to wait for new updates on those add-ons. At the time of this writing I’m using RSS Editor 0.0.9.3 and it didn’t work for Firefox 3. That’s why I had to switch back to Firefox 2.

So if you’re asking if you should update to Firefox 3? It depends on the add-ons that you’re using. Check out Firefox’s add-on page to see if your add-ons have updates for Firefox 3. If they don’t have updates yet, then you’d have to stick to Firefox 2 for a while. By the way, Firefox 2 will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December 2008.

If you’re not using any add-on, then it’s OK to upgrade to Firefox 3. It has a lot of great new features like:

• Improved performance
• Instant Web Site Id (Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.)
• Improved password manager (no longer pops up and continues to login even if you haven’t made a selection yet)
• And many more, check out Firefox’s features here.