Adobe reader keeps crashing

I use Adobe Reader a lot - every day I'm reading through a number of PDFs, or filling in a fillable PDF form.  However, it keeps crashing on me.  Every day.  Several times a day.  Sometimes it's when doing a search, sometimes it's simply opening a file.  Sometimes it's when entering data into a fillable PDF form.  Sometimes it's when I have only one file open, sometimes it's when I have multiple files open.  There doesn't seem to be any pattern to when it crashes or what causes it to crash.  Right now, Adobe Reader is nearly useless to me because it crashes so often.  It's the only software I have on my machine that routinely crashes so I know it's not a systemic problem but one specific to Adobe Reader.
Facts:
    Mac OS 10.9.5
   Adobe Reader: 11.0.10
Both are up-to-date in terms of patches as far as I can tell - at least checking for updates gets a message that the software is up-to-date.
The only thing I can think of is that something that exists from an older version of Adobe Reader (a preference file, a cache file, or something) is causing the problem.  But, since I don't know the exact list of all files that Adobe uses (or has used in the past), I don't know what files to remove that might be left over from older versions of Reader.
Can anyone help?  

I use Adobe Reader a lot - every day I'm reading through a number of PDFs, or filling in a fillable PDF form.  However, it keeps crashing on me.  Every day.  Several times a day.  Sometimes it's when doing a search, sometimes it's simply opening a file.  Sometimes it's when entering data into a fillable PDF form.  Sometimes it's when I have only one file open, sometimes it's when I have multiple files open.  There doesn't seem to be any pattern to when it crashes or what causes it to crash.  Right now, Adobe Reader is nearly useless to me because it crashes so often.  It's the only software I have on my machine that routinely crashes so I know it's not a systemic problem but one specific to Adobe Reader.
Facts:
    Mac OS 10.9.5
   Adobe Reader: 11.0.10
Both are up-to-date in terms of patches as far as I can tell - at least checking for updates gets a message that the software is up-to-date.
The only thing I can think of is that something that exists from an older version of Adobe Reader (a preference file, a cache file, or something) is causing the problem.  But, since I don't know the exact list of all files that Adobe uses (or has used in the past), I don't know what files to remove that might be left over from older versions of Reader.
Can anyone help?  

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