Comments on: Why I No Longer Recommend Foxit Reader For PDFs http://tombrownsword.com/news/493/why-i-no-longer-recommend-foxit-reader-for-pdfs/ Business Continuity, Computer Security, Internet Business Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Fips http://tombrownsword.com/news/493/why-i-no-longer-recommend-foxit-reader-for-pdfs/comment-page-1/#comment-52519 Fips Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:53:22 +0000 http://tombrownsword.com/news/?p=493#comment-52519 Had exactly the same issue, which was more than a tad annoying (and as you point out, dangerous!) I was running the 32-bit version for Vista, so the same problem exists there. However, I took your advice and moved to Sumatra PDF Viewer, and ended up with essentially the same problem. Every time I opened a PDF I was asked whether I wanted to associate PDFs with the program. Doing so brought up the UAC, naturally, but it failed to work. Manually adding the association didn't solve the problem, and I even ticked the wrong box on Sumatra's pop-up dialogue box which meant that every time it opened, a UAC request popped up too! Fortunately a quick fiddle in the registry showed that the system file association wasn't the same as that for the user. I wouldn't want to say if that was the fault of a dirty clean up by Foxit or a lax install by Sumatra, but either way, finding a decent alternative to Adobe turned out to be an arduous journey! Had exactly the same issue, which was more than a tad annoying (and as you point out, dangerous!) I was running the 32-bit version for Vista, so the same problem exists there.

However, I took your advice and moved to Sumatra PDF Viewer, and ended up with essentially the same problem. Every time I opened a PDF I was asked whether I wanted to associate PDFs with the program. Doing so brought up the UAC, naturally, but it failed to work. Manually adding the association didn’t solve the problem, and I even ticked the wrong box on Sumatra’s pop-up dialogue box which meant that every time it opened, a UAC request popped up too!

Fortunately a quick fiddle in the registry showed that the system file association wasn’t the same as that for the user. I wouldn’t want to say if that was the fault of a dirty clean up by Foxit or a lax install by Sumatra, but either way, finding a decent alternative to Adobe turned out to be an arduous journey!

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