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I honestly never looked into the "why".
I always tell others - the day I'm required to write code - any code - that does anything with Facebook is the day I retire.
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I have realized one thing:
Big companies produce bloated code which need large teams to maintain. Small companies produce just enough code for the apps to work nicely.
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True and yet big companies are richer than smaller companies partly because they tailor to the edges.
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I use Corel PDF Fusion (because it came free with one or more versions of Paintshop Pro and it allows PDF editing as well) and that's "only" 134MB! Bear in mind that's 134MB of Corel product: and their company motto is "Bloat and add bugs". 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It could have been worse. It could have been written in Java.
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I have both Adobe Acrobat and Moon+ Reader, and I prefer Moon+ reader over adobe acrobat for mobile reading.
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Indeed. A while ago someone here sneered at me because he heard that I still write assembly programs on a 40 year old 8 bit computer and actually get something working in just 4k RAM. Even an icon as resource is far bigger today.
Quote: Captain Jean-Luc Picard : You know, Number One, you missed something not playing with model ships. They were the source of imaginary voyages, each holding a treasure of adventures. Manning the earliest spacecraft, flying an aeroplane, with only one propeller to keep you in the sky. Can you imagine that?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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adobe acrobat has additional functionality like support for digital ceritifcates , cloud apis , plugins supporting adobe acrobat pro like forms etc... hence the size... normally meant for enterprise or corp environments....who use adobe..they other readers don't have to support all this...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Surely you mean 163.5 million bytes? Or are you using that simpleton MB for Apple users?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Well, that depends on whether you accept the authority of a group who wish to redefine the meaning of an ubiquitous term stretching long into the past.
I'll accept there's two mainstream meanings of MB out there today, but in my very humble opinion one is correct, and one is meddling. 
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I see you are not a HDD manufacturer.
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I can never remember which MB is which.
It's a good thing it's not money; I'd get ripped off something awful.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Never heard of Foxit, but just downloaded free version (FoxitReader94) and the download is 74Mb... though it does seem to do a lot more than just display PDFs... good find, thank you!
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I still use version 3.1: 9MB on disk and 8MB in memory.
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I'm using the "portable" version (which goes for many apps), and Foxit contains a "facebook" plugin of 4 Mb after install. It runs happily without it.
See \App\Foxit Reader\plugins.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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As per one of my messages above: The realization that FoxIt comes with a Facebook plugin is when I decided FoxIt needed to go.
I realize it can be disabled (and you have to keep disabling after every update). But when the maker of a PDF reader decides that there has to be a component to integrate (in some fashion - any fashion) with Facebook - we can't possibly be on the same page.
Myself, I use Sumatra PDF. It's kinda ugly, but that's a non-issue.
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dandy72 wrote: It's kinda ugly
By ugly you mean classic don't you?
I use Sumatra PDF as well.
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I happen to think "classic" (in the Windows Classic sense) looks nice enough.
By ugly, I'm thinking about Sumatra going the extra mile using an ugly color scheme. Or may I'm just remembering its installer--I seem to remember some gaudy bright yellow thing. But once it gets going, there's really not much to look at other than the actual content after a PDF is loaded. So it's not something that's permanently in your face.
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 It's still the same gaudy bright yellow thing. I kinda like it though. 
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Everybody else has worse faults to forgive.
Sumatra rarely gets updated, and it could be bug-infested for all I know, but given that it has nothing that'll even try to make it talk to the outside world, there's a ton of types of exploits it's not even susceptible to. So...that's a win in my book.
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Whereas this[^] is a 4kB executable. All live ray tracing.
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The trouble comes in when you need to start handling user interactions. 4kB lovely looking world. Then couple MB to handle all that under surface material. Through in a human, oh man. Couple MB to make sure human does not go through wall. At which point to realise the human will try to go through the wall regardless, so a few MB defining what areas okay to walk around. Oh NO, now he needs food. Okay a few MB for digestion and which things okay to eat, some actually needs eating (water), other stuff wont kill them and some stuff just to make them sick and laugh at their pain.
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Just use chrome/edge. No need for those additional software
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Chris Maunder wrote: 156 million bytes.
It includes the Adobe OS (AOS), which you need so you can read PDFs, of course.
Next time you open a PDF file hit CTRL-C and type "shell AOS" and you'll get a command prompt.
No, I'm not serious.
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