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During the installer's first couple of screens, the Ask toolbar was offered -- not a bit deal, really. It's included in plenty of apps nowadays. It does, however, default to being checked, so make sure you uncheck it (unless you're the type who likes to cram as many toolbars as possible into Internet Explorer).
After seeing the Ask toolbar offered, I chose to do a custom install -- just in case Foxit defaulted to including anything else I didn't want. I noted eBay shortcuts and unchecked them, and then got a rather rude surprise (take the jump to see what):
update: as Matt points out below, it's all in the wording. Though the boxes are unchecked, you've still got to click decline in order to proceed without getting the toolbar. Counterintuitive to say the least -- I'm kind of used to needing to click accept in order to continue the install process.
Whether this is a mistake or not makes no difference to me -- and if it is a mistake, it's one that should have been detected during the testing process. I'll happily continue using the Google Docs online viewer and Sumatra for my offline PDF reading needs.
If you choose to include a toolbar installer with your application, that's fine. But I'd prefer it if you would 1) make it opt-in and not opt-out and 2) not try to spring it on me later during the install.
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Subscribe to commentsjfjbJul 13th 2010 11:24AM
nitroreader is a mammoth memory-hungry
( over 50% CPU activity to check file permissions, plus an additional service ? )
no thanks, dude, who are you anyway, to nitroreader?
ToksicJun 30th 2010 5:40AM
To Lee Mathews:
SHAME on you! Instead of admitting that you blatantly ignored all instructions displayed to you, TWICE, you try to brush off your embarrassing display of incompetence with the excuse that it's counter-intuitive?
You're the kind of guy who walks into a phone pole, and starts cussing at it, EH?
ossJun 30th 2010 7:23AM
Shame?
This is simply an example that everybody can make a mistake. And that everybody can learn from other's mistakes. So, it is worth.
Who has never made a mistake, throw the first stone.
mavkatoJun 30th 2010 8:25AM
i got done installing it, then later got a message saying something (don't remember what, i think the firefox addon that was automatically installed) wasn't working correctly, and immediately uninstalled it and installed adobe reader instead. but, i think i will be uninstalling reader after work and installing sumatra instead.
MxxConJun 30th 2010 9:11AM
"i got done installing it"?
please to be speakings gooderer engrish
mavkatoJun 30th 2010 9:17AM
Thank you for correcting my grammar this morning. I should know better than to try typing before I have had any coffee. What I meant to say was, "When I finished installing Foxit, a short time later I received an error message from Windows 7 stating that the Firefox Add-on was not functioning correctly. Upon observing this error, I immediately uninstalled Foxit from my system, and installed a competing program provided by Adobe, called Reader. Now that I am aware of a program known as Sumatra, I will be uninstalling Adobe Reader and installing Sumatra in its place."
jfjbJul 30th 2010 5:58PM
the latest FoxitReader40_enu.msi can be found at:
http://cdn01.foxitsoftware.com/pub/f...ader40_enu.msi
this is a direct link to downloadthe above-mentioned file, which installs quick and clean w/o tricky questions
pass the word if you care