February 27, 2009
Niggles
- Why does Adobe Reader 9 come with AIR? Mmm, proliferation. Uninstalled immediately.
- Why do so many installers assume I’m willing to grant them net access? What exactly are you doing? BTW, I love VLC’s approach to this: a message from the devs saying they hate apps connecting to the net automatically too.
- Why do apps ignore my preference for standard antialiasing? This includes IE8 (which has an ‘always use Cleartype for HTML’ option buried in Advanced options),
AcrobatAdobe Reader and the MS Live installer. - Silverlight install requests. I hate monopolies too, but I’m not encouraging another proprietary plugin just to break it.
- Google Update’s strange install location + checking for updates every 10 minutes. At least it uses the task scheduler, but the apps seems to run two copies at once at 7MB RAM a pop.
- c:\documents and settings\<username>\my documents\updater . What is this dir? Why is it always recreated empty?
Beginning to sound like the old guys from the Muppets…