Scroll lag when viewing PDF files

Hey everyone.
I've searched all over the internet for an answer to this question, but it seems every answer is "your computer can't handle large files". I recently had my hard drive crash a few weeks ago (I use a 2008 MacBook) and I bought a new SSD. On my old hard drive, my scrolling was fine in Adobe Reader. It was very smooth and almost zero lag for any size file. Now, no matter what size file there is always this choppiness and lag when I scroll. However, I use LaTeX for my math work, and when I run my code the PDF's view very smoothly, like it did on my old hard drive. I'm not sure what my settings were on Adobe Reader before my computer crashed, but I've looked at all the preference settings and nothing seems related to my issue. I have this problem when viewing in Safari and outside Safari. It can't be performance related because I have more free space on my SSD now, and I upgraded my RAM from 2GB to 4GB when my HDD crashed. I've tried using Adobe Reader X and XI, but they give the same results. Can anyone help with the issue?

Back up all data.
Triple-click the line of text below on this page to select it, the copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
/Library/Internet Plug-ins
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-G. Paste into the text box that opens (command-V), then press return.
From the folder that opens, remove any items that have "Adobe" or “PDF” in the name. You may be prompted for your login password. Then quit and relaunch Safari, and test.
The "Silverlight" web plugin distributed by Microsoft can also interfere with PDF display in Safari, so you may need to remove it as well, if it's present. The same goes for a plugin called "iGetter," and perhaps others.
If you still have the issue, repeat with this line:
~/Library/Internet Plug-ins
If you don’t like the results of this procedure, restore the items from the backup you made before you started. Relaunch Safari again.

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