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As mentioned all browsers can read PDF natively so there is not really much point in using something like Adobe PDF reader unless you want to actually edit PDF.
I don't use EDGE... ever.
I don't need to edit pdfs so I use SumatraPDF. It has no bloat.
Sumatra PDF reader download page
I printed your post to pdf then highlighted it & added a comment [an annotation].
Several pdf readers can do this. I used Foxit PDF Reader.
SumatraPDF does not have advanced search capabilities [see my earlier post #2].
It is only 13MB whereas Foxit is 117MB. And that 100MB gets me advanced search capabilities.
I have Sumatra on my Win10 install USB, because it's the only PDF reader I've found that can run on it, but have no use for it otherwise.
Denis
I just tested it. It seems like you can open pdfs and fill out the form with edge, but it doesn't seem like you can do much besides that.
Adobe Reader is not the only option, the one shipped with Windows 8.1 was amazingly fast, I kept it for low end machines using low resources and still running fast, other than that you might try XODO PDF, it's the fastest option I know, it's free and allows elegant edits.
NO, unless you need it to comply with specific PDF workflow-functions or specific plugins, other than this, Adobe PDF has grown out of proportions, it's slow, huge, and you don't really need so many megabytes to open 1mb documents.