The company is working on a more automated self-updating system for version 2.4. As shown below, the standard Help -> About displays the version number and build number. Prior to that, the software was at version 2.2. Prior editions of version 2.3 had build numbers of 2923, 28. The version number for the Foxit Reader has not changed, it is still 2.3. Finally, it does not warn you about known buggy software for which there isn't yet a patch. Then too, unless you run a their full scan, there is no chance of detecting old versions of portable applications. For one thing, Secunia only tracks the most popular software. But, it's unrealistic for any normal computer user to keep up with updates to software when there are so many different delivery schemes.įor learning about software that needs to be updated, I'm a big fan of the online Secunia scanner, but it only goes so far. This is not a knock on Foxit, a company that makes a very useful program, one that I use often, and gives it away for free. But, I just stumbled across it by accident. Had I known about the update last month, I would have installed it. The update, released August 4, 2008, fixes a number of bugs. I'm reminded of this by the latest update to a popular program, the free Foxit Reader for Adobe Acrobat files. In the same way we look at typewriters as something Fred Flintstone used, future techies will scorn this time period for the disgracefully inadequate way patches are distributed to end users. The way software is updated on personal computers, with every company rolling their own solution to a common problem, is archaic.
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