Notes from a Desi Geek

Couple of days back, Anil blogged about how you can speed up your Acrobat Reader.

One of the problem, which I faced earlier with Acrobat reader, was that I could not disable PDF View inside browser. I prefer to download PDF file and then open them separately in Acrobat Reader.

I am sure you would have come across pages which links to PDFs without giving warning, and if you were not careful to look at Status bar before clicking the link, you would suffer a little penalty of your browser getting hanged till Acrobat Reader loads.

In an ideal world, all the pages whould have some kind of indicator that the link you are going to click is not normal link and it’s for PDF file. Sadly, it’s an imperfect world. Fear no more! Get yourself Target Alert Firefox extension. Once installed, Target Alert goes through all the links in page and marks all the PDF links, mailto: links, zip file links with appropriate icons. so that you would never click on that PDF file by mistake again! [If you have ever clicked on mailto links by mistake, same extension does the trick for you!] Great, isn’t it?

This is how your page, with PDF, ZIP, mailto: links, might look once you have Target Alert installed:

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