On: Ask PG: Why redirect all HackerNews submitted PDFs through Scribd?

[DougBTX]

> Acrobat Reader opens in a pop up window, which is annoying and slow

Adobe don't have a monopoly on PDF readers, why do you even have it installed??

On OSX, PDFs open up in the browser just like HTML, and load only more slowly due to typically larger file sizes. I don't believe that noone has written a decent PDF viewer for Windows.

[SwellJoe → DougBTX]

Actually I mostly use the Gnome document viewer (I don't recall its name), but it also pops up a new window.