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Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Yet another reason why Acrobat Reader sucks

I was wondering why my free memory on my machine kept slipping away, when if anything I should have been reclaiming memory by closing Firebird tabs. Turns out that a PDF I viewed over an hour ago wound up in Acrobat Reader being left in memory, slowly leaking like someone who's eaten too many Olestra-filled chips.

My system stopped responding because of it, but luckily CTRL+ALT+DEL worked, and when I killed Acrobat I shot up to about 35-40% resources free. Not only that, but significantly, Acrobat Reader, once opened, keeps itself permanently in memory. Asshole.

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I've had the same problem with Opera. And, I know what you're sayin' about the olestra, man--we used to have that crap in some of the food at school. Yum.

I use adobe acrobat, it's inflated itself to take up 50mb. My computer runs so darn slow when it's open. It takes about 10 mb for a 100kb file to view. It takes a long time for the program to open.

Why does anybody use it when it sucks so bad?

Windows 95 takes less system resources than Acrobat!

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