Open multiple pdfs in one acrobat window

There are many things annoying about Acrobat, but the one that really gets me is that the option to open multiple pdfs in the same window, rather than splattering them all over the toolbar, apparently has been removed in the latest versions. I have been using Foxit for pdfs for the past few years and am only now returning to acrobat because we've purchased a piece of software that requires a plugin that works only in acrobat.
Tabs are the proper solution. How long ago did Firefox shake up the browser community with tabs, 15 years ago? Where was Acrobat? For a while, they bodged together a preference that would keep them all in the same window (no tabs however), but even that is gone.

You can make a feature request here:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:15 PM, whatsamattau <[email protected]>

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