It works in Internet Explorer (I have IE 7):
Supports over 30 languages including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew and even Valencian (but oddly not Hindi - even Blogger supports Hindi). Works on all consumer versions of Windows (including 98, XP and Vista), and they even have versions for Linux (tested on Fedora 4 and SuSe Linux 1.0 so far), Windows Mobile and U3 USB smart drives - but no Mac sorry (though they offer both a Linux and MacOS SDK). Takes up much less space on my hard drive too - according to Add/Remove Programs about 7 MB (compared with Adobe Reader, which hogged 117 MB of my precious space!). And it installs (and uninstalls) in a second, I kid you not - I couldn't believe it had done it, but it had. Decent manual (in PDF of course), which also includes an Appendix listing keyboard shortcuts, yay!. Enough keyboard shortcuts even for a keyboard fanatic like me (Alt-1 toggles the bookmarks sidebar by the way). No more Adobe Reader sneakily hiding in the background even after I think I've closed it down, and stymying my PC shutdown. No more browser crashes - not Firefox, not even Internet Explorer (not caused by Adobe Reader, anyway). 
PDFs open up a zillion times more quickly (or even a Gillian times, a unit which a friend and I maintain is much better than a billion, or even a zillion). Pros - Faster, FoxitCat! Go! Go!Foxit has massively improved my productivity, efficiency and blood pressure: But if you uninstall Adobe after you've got Foxit in place, Adobe will do its best to screw up your PDF file associations even as you try to consign it to oblivion. You can always reinstall Adobe later if you prefer it, it's still free. Tip: if you want to try Foxit as your PDF reader, uninstall Adobe Reader first, then install Foxit. I've been using it for about 4 months now. So I said "Foxit!" to Adobe, downloaded the free Foxit Reader 2.0 for Windows (there's a Linux version too), and set that as my default reader for the PDF or Portable Document Format files that are ubiquitous on the Net ( download Foxit Reader, Foxit Reader user manual). 
(See other Adobe Reader criticisms on Wikipedia). Having had it up to here with bloated Adobe Acrobat Reader crashing both Internet Explorer and Firefox and stalling my computer and always trying to update itself, as if it wasn't monstrous enough already, I decided to give up on it altogether. Don't use Foxit if you have a vulnerable version, until it's upgraded - and obviously get the upgrade ASAP! This vulnerability is supposed to be fixed in the version 2.3 build 2912 to be released "shortly".
UPDATE May 2008: there's a security hole in Foxit Reader version 2.3 build 2825 and possibly previous versions.
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