Foxit outfoxes fiendish flaw to fix foxed-up Firefox PDF plugin
Foxit Software has fixed a critical security hole in its PDF plugin for web browsers. A bug in the code allowed overly long URLs in web links to crash the utility - billed as a "better" alternative to Adobe's software - or potentially inject malicious code into vulnerable Windows systems. The stack-based buffer overflow flaw is …
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Do you just love alliteration
Fiesty Foxit Finally Fixes a Few Fleeting Foibles. Phew.....
FFFFF.....
Ah bollocks, to hard to alliterate.
Slightly quicker than Adobe - and they patch bugs faster too :)
Re: FFFFF.....
That's why they got a buffer overflow. 16 bit will only get you FFFF
Re: Might as well just use pdf.js
Gave it a try and it worked, and far faster than I'd thought possible. Amazing.
Thanks for the tip.
useful
This flap lead me to discover Sumatra PDF reader, which seems a great deal smaller, faster and less spammy than Foxit, so it was actually a useful exercise :)
Re: useful
Yep, Suddenly you See Sumatra Sucks less ;)
(Ok, have to work on my alliteration skills. Unfortunately, that task will just have to join the queue ;) )
More seriously: yep, love Sumatra. Can't understand why it's not more popular among the Reg crowd.
Re: useful
Possibly Reg-ers are appalled by the default acid yellow background of Sumatra PDF?
Fix it by adding bg-color to the shortcut, as in
"C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe" -bg-color 0xF2F8FD
(a delicate pale blue in RGB).
Re: useful
Got me switched to PDF-XChange. Faster load than Foxit, fills out forms. Farewell Foxit!
Re: useful
Tried Sumatra when Foxit kinda went tits up for a bit and needed a .pdf reader (never, ever going to do Abobe again for that). What I thought neat about Sumatra was that it was also an ebook reader. Still, Foxit (when working) seems to integrate a bit better and Calibre is my ebook reader. Nonetheless, was quite impressed with Sumatra.
Foxit
I use Foxit but the real point is that diversity is key. if PDF is supposed to be a standard we shouldn't have a monoculture of one single PDF reader. Inevitably it will get bought by a careless profit driven monolith like Adobe and Microsoft who will use it as a platform to start churning out shit.
I had almost expected
Firefox to feature in the fantastically fanciful headline
Re: I had almost expected
Good point; forgot that Firefox was the browser the bug was tested against.
C.
Re: I had almost expected
I see the Firefox headline flaw has fortuitously been fixed
Installer attempts to load ASK crapware
Beware! Ensure you uncheck the "Ask toolbar" checkbox when installing.
Foxit used to be good too. But success corrupts software it seems.
Re: Installer attempts to load ASK crapware
Use the Ninite installer instead, and keep it on your computer.
Each time you run it, it will install the latest version, and prevent installation of any toolbars. No browsing to find the latest file or anything.
Simples.
Re: Installer attempts to load ASK crapware
I had forgotten how tedious it is to install Windows and how you need use or buy third party applications to do anything useful.
Yes Ninite is good but I'm not trolling this time, I'm serious.
I gave up Windows after I spent more time maintaining it in working order than actually using it.
Re: Installer attempts to load ASK crapware
Use the Ninite installer instead
Wow, cheers for that, certainly saves on the crapware getting thru.
Re: Installer attempts to load ASK crapware
You realise GNU/Linux is entirely made up of 3rd party application right ?
Re: You realise GNU/Linux ...
I don't install GNU or Linux, I install a distribution that combines those with a whole bunch of other useful stuff in the initial installation, and a huge selection of optional extras via the integrated application manager. Debian or whoever don't write all that stuff, but they do integrate it into a useful package that's all available from a single source.
Be honest
You are only reporting on this so you can play with headlines, aren't you?
Sadly their download page is so overloaded it wont even load what ever stupid JavaScript they are using instead of a real link...
Alliteration
Admirable allieration achieves accolades.
Adios. Mine's the one with the OED in the pocket.
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