HT6114 pdf's freezing in Preview!

I see that there is no update for Preview in the current update (10.9.2) regarding the fact that it keeps freezing randomly when reading pdf's. Is anyone else still having this problem?

I do like Adobe Acrobat and use it regularly but there are parts of Preview that I like a little better. That being said, this is a new problem that Preview has, where it is freezing while scrolling through pdf's. I've been using the same type of pdf's for years now and it is only after the Mavericks update that this freezing problem has started.

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AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
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It will generally work very well on unoptimized files such as scans made with the OS X scanning utility or PDFs produced via OS X printing dialog.
It will not further compress well-optimized (comrpessed) files and might create bigger files than the originals,
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What else?
Feel free to use/distribute/package in any way you like.

Thanks ioscar.
The original link should be back online soon.
I believe this is a Dropbox error about the traffic generated by my Dropbox shared links.
I use Dropbox mainly for my business and I am pretty upset by this situation.
Since the filters themsemves are about 5KB, I doubt they are the cause for this Dropbox misbehavior!
Anyway, I submitted a support ticket to Dropbox, and hope everything will be back to normal very soon.
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I may have used a significant amount of bandwidth but nowhere near the 200GB/day limit of my Dropbox Pro account.
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