Any reason acroread is so slow to startup?

It usually takes several tens of seconds for acroread to open up for me. Once its been opened and then closed and I open it again, it only takes a couple of seconds (ie: in memory). Is there any reason it would take so long the first time, something I can speed up? Its not that huge and ungainly a program that it should take so long on a processor this speed. It also doesn't seem to be an IO problem because my disk monitors don't spike while waiting for the pig to open. The only thing I could think of was perhaps its making a network access before opening (adobe spyware??), but this seems unlikely... and even if it was happening, it shouldn't take that long because I have a hell of a good internet connection too.
I suppose maybe its because its distributed as a binary... not i686 like I'm used to. Could be that.
Ok, but for the ranting -- does anybody have any ideas how I can speed the bloody thing up? Its really annoying when I happen to click a pdf link in firefox and the whole browser freezes for more than half a minute while acroread is checking itself in the mirror...
Dusty

hotsauce wrote:
Dusty wrote:does anybody have any ideas how I can speed the bloody thing up?
sorry to piss on the parade, but why not use xpdf?
I used to flip between it and kpdf, but neither of them supports enough of the many pdfs I have to read. I'm not sure what's special about them, but I'm looking at literally dozens of papers per week, and at least half of them don't seem to render properly in the open source alternatives to acroread. I haven't tried them in a while though, perhaps they work better.
Dusty

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