So in the spirit of the simplicity that made Foxit Reader so popular, it would be nice with a renewed "Foxit Reader Light" with a reduced feature set (and the other current default features as optional plugins):
- View PDF files from local or local network disk (whatever the OS will treat as a normal file)
- Search and copy text already in the PDF (without resorting to OCR of image-only PDFs)
- Browser plugins for reading PDFs on web pages
- Check digital signatures on already signed PDF files by using the certificate engines in Windows or Firefox (Foxit Corp chooses which one).
- Option to enable/disable clickable web links in PDF files.
- Promotional links to other Foxit products.
- Promotional link to install Ask! toolbar.
- Promotional link to install that office suite.
The optional extras, that could each be added individually via the Updater would include:
- Asian text support (if making it a plugin still saves on download size)
- PDF forms support
- PDF annotation
- Signing PDF files using Docusign
- Support for JavaScript in PDF files (with option to disable)
- Social media integration
- Ability to integrate with AD Rights Management in enterprises that use this.
- Ability to work with other rights management plugins such as "FileOpen"
- Alternative text/image/data types in PDFs (DXF layers, the upcoming HiXxx format etc.)
- Ask! toolbar
- That office suite