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Yes, for a wide variety of reasons: * Before version 8, Adobe's plugin was an epic piece of shit on all platforms - old versions are on hundreds of mill
by blasdel 17y ago
Yes, for a wide variety of reasons:
* Before version 8, Adobe's plugin was an epic piece of shit on all platforms
- old versions are on hundreds of millions of computers!
- it's still really crashy on Linux (especially in nspluginwrapper)
- The only OS X browser they support is Safari, in which it is unnecessary
* Google re-hosts the file for you
* It is ridiculously snappy with no main-thread-blocking initialization
* It will never crash your browser
* Your users don't have an ingrained hatred towards it
- Rebranding the free Acrobat as "Adobe Reader" was the stupidest thing
they've ever done (ever hear a user say 'my Adobe is broken'?)
- seiji 17y agoI can't tell if you're being facetious in your last line, but I used to work at a place requiring, in their own words, "Adobe must be installed on every computer" long before they changed the Acrobat name.