Foxit Read 7.3.0.118 Classic toolbar missing

[richell_huang]

WHY the ribbon? Only because of MS? WHY give a kick in the ass to all those who are working professionally with their PCs for a long time? WHY change a running system? WHY make it worse? WHY??? Since I don't want to switch back to an outdated version I already said goodbye to Foxit because Foxit said goodbye to the classic menu. Bringing back the classic menu would bring me back to Foxit...

We are very sorry to hear that, but we respect it and we have already forwarded your comment to our PM team for future reference,

[amricom]

WHY the ribbon? Only because of MS? WHY give a kick in the ass to all those who are working professionally with their PCs for a long time? WHY change a running system? WHY make it worse? WHY??? Since I don't want to switch back to an outdated version I already said goodbye to Foxit because Foxit said goodbye to the classic menu. Bringing back the classic menu would bring me back to Foxit...

[lyndi_wu]

jols

May I suggest you to use the latest version 7.2.8 which has the classic mode, you could download it from the following link:

http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/foxit/reader/desktop/win/7.x/7.2/en_us/FoxitReader728.1124_prom_enu_Setup.exe

And your comments about the classic toolbar mode missing in version 7.3 has been updated to PHANTOM-5994. Thank you.

[jols]

Hi all and the foxit team,

I just registered to the forum specifically to [also] post against the ribbon only. Horrible stuff.

Please foxit, offer us the choice to get back to the standard toolbar.
Since foxit developped this ribbon thing, the very first thing i was doing when installing was getting back to the classic toolbar.
By the number of pages/posts in this topic (with some people registering to the forum just for that) I'm sure many not posting in here having been doing it too.

I will never use ribbons apps, and i'm sure that some sensible developpers will get back to earth and keep things simple and working as requested by ... users.
How crap apps have gone since the tablets and co era. Computers still are around, and even more when it's about being productive. Please consider both users !

As many, i'll be back to the last good version of foxit reader then, in the wait for a solution from foxit or from somewhere else.

As one has said : classic toolbar, no cloud = great.

[hamboning]

I regged for this thread. Not only is the ribbon confusing, it doesn't have 1/2 the functionality I need as a PDF editor. I had to ADD font type and size after looking through the help file. Think on that a minute. What is right at the top of this very forum's post box?

Everything is in a different category and the bar is just way too big, taking up precious vertical real estate. The file menu now takes over the entire screen, trying to get to properties was even a chore. Didn't find a way to kill the "home" screen either.

I was using phantom from 2013 and it served me great for 3 years bugs and all... so much for deciding to upgrade. Happy that I can still download 7.28 get some useability back. Your enterprise customers ate this up?

[dirkg]

Since the last update of the German version I am also missing the classic toolbar mode extremely.

The ribbon takes much too much place on the screen!

For my work I have to view drawings most of the time and on a wide monitor this is really annoying that the ribbon bar is so big.

Hiding the ribbon is no answer because you need many more clicks to do your work then.

Further, costumization is much harder.

Please give us back the classic toolbar and drop the ribbon! No one needs that!

Libre Office and Co. do better.

[richell_huang]

What means a "prom" version ? There is FoxitReader728.1124_enu_Setup.exe and FoxitReader728.1124_prom_enu_Setup.exe. Why choose the one or the other ?

prom version contains the promotion program Foxit PhantomPDF so customer can choose to install it for 30 days free trial, while FoxitReader728.1124_enu_Setup.exe is the clean package for Foxit Reader.

[secarica_banned]

What means a "prom" version ? There is FoxitReader728.1124_enu_Setup.exe and FoxitReader728.1124_prom_enu_Setup.exe. Why choose the one or the other ?

[Megamoya]

Add me to the list of people who keep 7.2.8 and are totes unwilling to downgrade to 7.3 because of the ribbon. Seriously, ribbon interfaces are the second worst thing that currently exists in user interfaces, only behind windows 8's desktop/tablet schizophrenia.

Don't get me wrong, I'm able to endure ribbons if I have no choice at all; at my job I have to use MS Office and Adobe Reader. But there's no chance I'd ever get myself to suffer that willingly at home. For now I'll keep the last good version of Foxit until either you come to your senses and fix this mess, or I find another reader that is good enough.

Seriously, if you don't have enough resources to keep both the ribbon and a good, usable interface, then you should have DROPPED THE RIBBON in the first place! It's not that hard!
Paraphrasing Samuel L. Jackson, common sense, motherfucker! Do you have it?

[AlexF]

Classic toolbar allowed detachment of search bar in order to maximize document viewing pane. Not with the new Ribbon, whose displayed search field is too narrow.

(BTW, FoxIT, is history and wildcards in search too hard in 2016?)

[uzi]

I disagree with the former comment. I believe that it is an interest of Foxit developers to produce something that the users will like.
At the same time, I still struggle to get used to the unpleasant ribbon - with no success thus far. I learned to live with it - not to like it. I still prefer Foxit over Adobe. May try again some of the other alternatives to see if they solved the problems causing me to stay with Foxit in the past (mainly - compatibility).

[munkitkat]

I'll stay with the older version until the classic toolbar returns. I tried the ribbon and thanks, but no thanks. It is a true jumbled mess.

[ggigabitem]

I am sorry that our developers don't work on Forum directly since they are focusing on program development.

If a software developer can't directly see the input from the end user, how are they supposed to develop anything?

All the mods have been doing here is being middlemen and posting cryptic reference numbers to some internal database. I have enough experience with internal support systems to know that behavior like this is usually just to quiet customers down and nobody actually sees said complaints because they're either never actually written, are filled with nonsense or are sent to a black hole and not read.

But our forum moderators always pay attention to forum threads.We do have already submitted users' feedback about the ribbon toolbar mode to our internal feature system for our product marketing team and development team's reference.

Indeed the mods have been paying attention to this thread, mostly for damage control.

The classic toolbar mode may be phased out in the future considering more and more people get used to the Ribbon mode.You may feed that it is uncomfortable to use the ribbon toolbar now. Once you get used to it, you'll find ribbon toolbar is way much better than the classic toolbar just like those users who likes Ribbon toolbar mode. Thank you.

Well it looks like the Foxit team wants to keep digging their hole deeper.

You're being rude and disrespectful, it's clear that you haven't read any of the 11 pages of this thread, or you just don't care. We've told you time and again that we refuse to use the Ribbon UI and that we're not going to get used to you trying to cram technologies down our throat that we don't want just because YOU think we should "get used to it."

I'm going to inform my customers to migrate from Foxit products to something else if the support team continues with disgusting behavior like this. You treat us like crap, you aren't getting our money. "Get used to" not having any customers left.

[Claude Benshaul]

I am afraid that currently our developers still doesn't have the plan to add back the classic toolbar now. The classic toolbar mode may be phased out in the future considering more and more people get used to the Ribbon mode.You may feed that it is uncomfortable to use the ribbon toolbar now. Once you get used to it, you'll find ribbon toolbar is way much better than the classic toolbar just like those users who likes Ribbon toolbar mode. Thank you.

Hilarious, here we have another example of a company wishing they could change their customers. Well then I must accept that it's time for me to change - to another product developed by a different company, perhaps one with a less paternal marketing department.

[Lisa_lee]

Hello all,We will do pass all your feedback on to product marketing team to let them know all of your views and perspectives.
arcadias ,We have already mentioned that "The Classic Toolbar Mode has been removed from the latest version 7.3.0.118"on our official knowledge base system in the following page:

https://help.foxitsoftware.com/kb/switch-toolbar-mode-version-7-0.php