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Which is one less windows for me to worry about. Like I said, I used to use Foxit, but I prefer Reader 8.x to it.
As for adobe acrobat being bloated, you could always remove un-needed plugins to speed it up. foxit reader is a bare-bones with very little customization options compared to adobe acrobat. I don't even think it supports plugins. But anyway, you could probably reach near-bare bones speed if you remove a bunch of plugins that comes with adobe acrobat
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