Shark007, a fellow member of MSFN Forums and author of Vista Codec Package, has released his new version of Adobe Reader Lite. It is now version 9.0 made from the latest version i posted about.

This Lite versions leaves out many plugins and has customized preferences so it opens faster and has less features than the average users needs. Also, the file size is a lot smaller.

I use his Lite installer in all my unattended installations and in my personal computers. I totally recommend it.

Right now it is only available in english, but soon all other languages will follow. Visit the discussion thread to keep an eye on new releases for other languages.

I recommend to uninstall any previous version of Adobe Reader and restarting your computer before installing this Lite version. This way you reduce the chance of having problems when installing it.

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Adobe launched its PDF publishing suite Acrobat 9.0 some days ago. They were missing the updated Adobe Reader 9.0, but today here it is.

There are lots of changes. You can read about them here.

Now they are including Acrobat.com support based on Adobe AIR so you can work on it like in a desktop application. I will try the new Reader version to see how it improves over its previous version.

The only thing i hate about Reader 8.x is that everytime you open a PDF document, the program freezes for a few seconds. This happens just about a 1 or 2 seconds after the document finishes loading, so i hate that when i’m opening something to take a quick read at it.

If your language is not ready in the new 9.0 version, just wait a few days and try again. They will soon release it in all languages.

Edit: I just saw that Adobe released a critical security fix for Reader 8.1.2. Get the patch.

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While Mozilla released Firefox 3.0 a week ago, they just updated version 2.x to 2.0.0.15 to include some security updates.

This is great for people that still prefer 2.0 over the new version, or for those that are still waiting for their favorite extensions to support Firefox 3.0.

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This little program lets you drag & drop your taskbar buttons (open windows) to rearrange them in the order you want. It also support systray icons, so you can move them as well.

You can choose to have its icon in the systray or hide it completely.

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