atrocious performance of adobe reader plugin

[Dave Howorth]

I recently installed karmic, together with firefox and adobe reader with
its plugin. I'm finding that the performance when viewing PDF documents
in a firefox window is truly atrocious.

I'm running across our LAN - firefox is on one machine with karmic,
while X is running on another machine on my desktop. I start firefox
with ssh -X.

I experience very long delays when saving documents but most especially
when printing them. The system monitor on the display machine is showing
lots of network activity, some user CPU activity but also noticeable
kernel activity on the display machine. I'm at a loss to understand why
there would be any activity at all on the display machine when printing.
I do have javascript disabled for PDF and often also for the sites from
which they were downloaded.

Has anybody come across this before? Any suggestions for ways around it
(alternative software etc)?

Thanks, Dave