Expert on energy saving.

[Tim Streater]

You *are* allowed to only print page 1 :-)

[alan_m]

There is probably some statistic saying how many thousand people had to be hospitalised injuring themselves whist bending down to switch off a power socket. Factor in these costs. The energy taken on one ambulance journey is equivalent to how many wall warts being left on?

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Tim Streater writes

Huh! PDFs on Firefox are so clunky I rarely read page 1. Let alone look to see what's on 2.

Are they still blocking Adobe upgrades?

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[Chris French]

In message , Tim Lamb writes

I don't like the built in pdf readers so much, so prefer to set it to open in a standalone pdf reader

[Andy Burns]

Disable the clumsy internal PDF reader in firefox by entering the URL into the address bar

about:config

then type pdfjs.disabled in the preferences search box, and double click that entry so it becomes disabled, then you can choose a proper external PDF reader (cutepdf, foxit, sumatra, acrobat etc).

[Tim Lamb]

OK Andy. I had been using acrobat but Firefox throws a wobbly when I try to get the latest version.

Version 8 is OK but slow on this m/c.

[Huge]

You allow Adobe's crap to run on your machine?

[polygonum]

Seeing far too many problems with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC to be impressed by that approach. Oddly, I have found Edge works surprisingly well.

[Andy Burns]

Sumatra is lightweight, it doesn't do form filling, probably doesn't handle (all?) encrypted files, but if they're not important to you, give it a whirl ...

[Andy Burns]

I wouldn't specifically recommend Acrobat, but some people seem wedded to it, disabling the inbuilt javascript based PDF viewer, allows you to choose any of the others ...

Too many adverts with Edge for my liking, plus I don't believe the hype that it's an entirely new browser ... IE with CaptiveX and most of the configuration options ripped-out more like.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

How do you cope with things that do need to be left switched on? Cookers and microwaves with a clock. PVRs, etc?

[charles]

I had friends who couldn't get their VCR to record. They turned it off every night and didn't bother to reset the clock in the morning. Oh dear.

[Tim Streater]

Is who blocking Adobe upgrades? It doesn't affect me anyway, I use Preview.

[Tim Lamb]

I suppose we all started out with acrobat.

The only form filling I need is HMRC and Govt. Gateway stuff. I have no idea how that works:-)

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Huge writes

That is pretty much an echo of what FF says about it:-)

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Tim Streater writes

Firefox were. Currently, if I try to get the latest acrobat, I get the

*problem encountered and need to phone home* bit.

I suppose XP is not helping...

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[John Jackson]

There is no point in printing it at all.

[Graham Nye]

Well, they aren't wall warts, which is what we were discussing. But things that have timers are in use, so they get left on. Things that have no reason to be left on, like chargers that aren't charging anything, get switched off.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Their internal PS may well be of an identical design, though.

You are assuming the power point they are plugged into is easily accessible. May not be everywhere.