>>My web applications out report files to PDFs. When the PDF is complete, I navigate the browser to the file. The first time I do this, the PDF takes 5-6 seconds to render in IE6, and subsequent displays of PDFs take 2-3 seconds. Is there a way to make the PDFs display in the browser faster?
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>Here is a solution to speed up the load time of Adobe Reader 6. Removing most of the plugins
>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11041

Makes me wonder... what was the meaning of the "dll" acronym? Dynamically loaded?

So why do those apps (and the Gymnast... I mean Acrobat... ooops, Adobe Reader is no exception) have to load all the modules up front? Shouldn't they just load them when needed?

And to load all the stuff on a reader, which is supposed to be a snappy plugin into your browser. What's wrong with having just a tiny loader which would read the pdf file's header, and determine which plugins are needed?

Feature bloat, indeed.