Dear Adobe: Top 100

  1. (+298) Why does the Acrobat Reader take two minutes to launch, and require updates twice a month, just to display PDF pages? #289
  2. (+250) adobe reader takes too long to open PDFs #242
  3. (+249) Please stop annoying me with installer updates when all I want to do is view PDFs in my browser. #406
  4. (+247) Please create an installer that puts your software on my computer in less time than it takes to install an operating system. #403
  5. (+245) Stop creating new features and make your software fast, stable and straightforward. #113
  6. (+245) please stop bloating each new release of Adobe Reader with unnecessary crap. 200MB+ for reading PDF's? puuhh-lease. #927
  7. (+244) Lower your prices #87
  8. (+243) please cut out the DRM crap, and price your products reasonably. #70
  9. (+238) Why does Photoshop cost as much as a pre-owned small car? Drop the price please!! #215
  10. (+238) please don't set Acrobat to be the default pdf viewer every time it gets updated. It's massively slower and clunkier than preview, and I don't want to use it. #271
  11. (+238) For the next version, please could you stop adding features and work on performance and stability instead? #381
  12. (+237) Please fix your update system. I am tired of constant requests to run patches that won't install. Acrobat is a fucking nightmare. #195
  13. (+235) Could you make Adobe Reader start up slower? I'd like to have enough time to go get a sandwich before I read a one page document. #614
  14. (+234) Skip CS4. CS3 does everything we need for now, and no one is going to catch up with you, not even Quark. Instead of forcing another version down our throats bloated with unnecessary features, you could instead take some time to make a new version that focuses on stability and performance. #161
  15. (+232) Your installer is the worst piece of software on the planet... well, actually, your updater is worse. For the love of all things good, fix it. #505
  16. (+229) Why does the updater only run when I launch an Adobe program? If I'm *launching* an Adobe program, it means I'm *about to do something*, which is the LEAST convenient time for Adobe to tell me to quit all my programs (including Firefox and Outlook) so it can run the updater. Grr... #319
  17. (+229) Make my 2009 Photoshop faster than Photoshop 3.5 #400 / View Correction
  18. (+227) The world is global now. Please fix your pricing. Thank you. #452
  19. (+227) Please update your Updater so that it won't take 110% of my CPU just to download some files. #593
  20. (+224) Sort out your god-awful installers. WHY do I need to close my BROWSER when installing a graphics application? I'm using it, dammit! Not least to give me something to do while eons pass and your installers dawdle along. #32
  21. (+223) I really don't want a 'My eBooks' folder. Please ask first. #524
  22. (+221) Get your fucking installers sorted out. Why do i need to CLOSE MY BROWSER to install a graphics app? I'm doing shit with my browser, you know, during the tedious wait for your installer to finish. #30
  23. (+221) Please make a lightweight version of the pdf reader #668
  24. (+219) Why do you install six "helper" applications in the background when all I want is Photoshop? Keep your Bridge to nowhere the fuck off my system. #602
  25. (+217) Give up on Updater. There are far better (read: less obnoxious) ways to update an app. #175
  26. (+216) why should a PDF reader need to connect to the internet whenever it feels like it and have start-on-boot components that evidently do nothing since disabling them has no noticeable effect? #177
  27. (+215) Why is Adobe Reader using more RAM than Supreme Commander? #156
  28. (+215) Let me keep my browser open while you update your programs. Or eat hair. The choice is yours. #532
  29. (+213) slim down Acrobat Reader in to something more like Foxit Reader #724
  30. (+212) Please stop forcing your PDF plug-ins into every orifice of OS X. Apple designed Preview for a reason. Fucking deal with it. #516
  31. (+212) Adobe Updater is the single worst piece of software I have ever seen. Please fuck off with that. #362
  32. (+211) You know what would be nice? Finally standardizing the interface between ALL of your applications. #19 / View Correction
  33. (+211) Please read and consider everything written on this website. It's for your own good #110
  34. (+211) Better font browser in Photoshop, please? #224 / View Correction
  35. (+210) remember when your applications were lightning fast? I miss that. #419
  36. (+209) Quality is better than quantity. #891
  37. (+207) please don't copy microsoft's naming and bundling conventions. I want CS3 not CS3 pro, CS3 pro advantage, CS3 pro plus, CS3 no frills, CS3 pro max, CS3 pro extra pro max... #366
  38. (+207) Please read this website. #398
  39. (+206) Stop adding features. Focus on stability, speed and removing bloat. #475
  40. (+206) Stop bundling crap with Reader - I don't want AIR installed unbeknownst to me! #555
  41. (+205) Could you please make your updater application _not_ suck and take up all of my processors /and/ make me shut down all of my browsers? #521
  42. (+205) Please kill the retarded Adobe Downloader, it's 2008 #701
  43. (+205) Please lower your prices #933
  44. (+202) Why oh why is Updater.app such garbage? It's 2008 already - why do I need to close Safari so you can update InDesign, exactly? #343
  45. (+202) Please stop raising your upgrade prices. I'm sick of paying for your merger. #487
  46. (+202) please either make the vector tools in Photoshop work like completely like Illustrator, or just leave them out. Their half-assedness is aggravating. #511 / View Correction
  47. (+201) Why do you think it's reasonable for your updater to steal focus while I'm typing and interpret my keystrokes as approval to reboot my machine? #789
  48. (+201) Flash Player needs to perform the same on Mac as it does on Windows. Crazy idea, right? #857
  49. (+200) can Photoshop and Illustrator (and InDesign, etc.) please just work the same? Same guides, same text tools, etc. #36 / View Correction
  50. (+199) Your updaters suck. And Acrobat's bloatware. #264
  51. (+196) Your updater sucks. Make it, perhaps, suck less. #864
  52. (+194) Why oh why is Updater.app such garbage? It's 2008 already - why do I need to close Safari so you can update InDesign, exactly? #45
  53. (+193) Please sort out the rubbish auto-update feature of Acrobat Reader. #346
  54. (+192) Please make photoshop give my ram back when I quit #354 / View Correction
  55. (+191) Please stop telling me Acrobat has been updated and I need to restart. #288
  56. (+190) Lower your pricing already. #570
  57. (+189) charge less. #72
  58. (+188) Enable auto-recover for Photoshop, so when it inevitably crashes for the 9th time today I can get back to the corporate schlock I was working on. #28 / View Correction
  59. (+188) please, please, please make all the shortcuts in all your applications the same. is it really that hard? #93 / View Correction
  60. (+188) please sort your installers out. I can't believe the byzantine kludge you make of my lovely clean file system. Applications/ and /Library/Application Support/ should be all you need. #115
  61. (+188) Why the hell do I need both "Adobe Help Viewer 1.0" and "Adobe Help Viewer 1.1"? This is the laziest excuse for terrible programming imaginable. At least make an effort to hide your incompetence. #637 / View Correction
  62. (+188) Please stop keeping the PC and Mac versions separate. One combined version, one license. How hard is that? #950 / View Correction
  63. (+188) Please rationalise you prices around the globe. $99 to update to Lightroom 2 is not 99 Euros. Be fair to those who use your products outside the US. #952
  64. (+188) I didn't ask for Bridge to install with CS3. #1111
  65. (+186) give the same keyboard shortcuts to the same functions no matter what app. if you say you're going for consistency, then be fucking consistent. #294 / View Correction
  66. (+185) Please lower international pricing - why do we have to pay more than 100% more than US customers. Even online! #956
  67. (+184) Please make your international pricing fair. #548
  68. (+184) Don't make VersionCue integral to Photoshop so the 98% of us who don't know what it is and the 25% of us for whom it doesn't work and won't update don't have to put up with it #625
  69. (+183) Why do you cost so much ... #252
  70. (+183) Please remember that some of us are starving artists and don't have hundreds of dollars to shell out on your products every year! Try to make it reasonable to stay on top of technology!! #304
  71. (+182) Please make your applications consistent. #101 / View Correction
  72. (+182) Please stop installing two hidden Opera browsers with the CS suite, I have enough browsers. Oh, and please let me run those other browsers while you are installing or updating something. #518
  73. (+180) Why are your products so friggin' expensive? #245
  74. (+180) Why is your software so hideously overpriced? #638
  75. (+180) You're fucking expensive #754
  76. (+179) Your Installation programs take WAY too long to work. #218
  77. (+179) Make your products cheaper... #1025
  78. (+177) you are really damn expensive #287
  79. (+177) Why the fuck to you have to force this Stock Photo, Bridge crap on me? #290
  80. (+175) i love you but you're expensive #14
  81. (+175) Do you think its smart to put the names of the developers up when the product is taking forever to load? #598
  82. (+175) Don't save all your bug fixes for the new version I have to upgrade to. Release some for the product I already bought. #858
  83. (+175) Please make run Adbobe Reader run as fast as the Preview app on the Mac #1011
  84. (+175) please don't charge DOUBLE for your apps in Europe just because you can. It makes you even more evil than Microsoft. #1112
  85. (+175) International customers should be charged the exact same price for Adobe software purchased and downloaded from adobe.com as customers in the USA. It's the same .exe file (or Mac install file) from Australia to Brazil to Nigeria to the USA so it should be the exact same price. In USD or Euros. Stop ripping off non-Yanks! #1122
  86. (+174) why can't I copy/paste formatted text from one of your expensive applications into another one of your expensive applications #461
  87. (+174) Stop price-gouging your international customers. #688
  88. (+173) Please use a proper installer so I CAN install your updates. #479
  89. (+173) The exchange rate for £ to the US$ is NOT 1:1. Your apps cost twice as much in the UK, you bastards. #845
  90. (+172) Mouse wheel. Learn what it is. #478
  91. (+172) just because i installed acrobat does not mean i want it installed in my web browser - my computer, my choices - douchebags #676
  92. (+171) maybe using my scroll wheel in a palette should elicit some kind of response (like scrolling) #123
  93. (+171) New features are great... only once you get the old ones right. #190
  94. (+171) You used to be so small and beautiful. Why did you bloat? #494
  95. (+171) please do a LIGHT acrobat reader (hint: foxit readerà #887
  96. (+170) stop being so damned expensive #192
  97. (+170) Sort out your installers. They make baby Jesus cry #325
  98. (+170) Why is it easy to make a transparent gradient in Photoshop and so damned involved in Illustrator. Could they not be the same? #378
  99. (+170) Why are you charging me an extra £240 just because I’m in the UK? I love your software, but I hate that I’m paying 73% more than my colleagues in the US… #437
  100. (+170) Stop selling me suites. Or let me select programs for my suite. #473
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