I try to say a lot while saying very little. Get used to it.
adobe SUCKS
Step 1: Get notified that Adobe Flash Player must be updated on PC to overcome (one if its many) significant security flaws.
Step 2: Be shown page to download and install latest version of Flash player on computer.
Step 3: Click ‘Allow’ in Firefox.
Step 4: Sudden pop-up of ‘Adobe Download Manager’, which distinctly shows that Mc-fuckin’-Afee fuckin’ virus scan is installing for no apparent reason.
Step 5: Open Firefox to see getPlusPlus something installed as a (1) plug-in, (2) extension. Yes. Both.
Step 5.5: Find link on update page that shows that McAfee is installed by default now. NO mention of fuckin’ getPlusPlus BTW.
Step 6: Curse and wonder why Adobe Flash is used by the planet at all while uninstalling all the crapware because of upgrading Adobe fuckin’ Flash fuckin’ Player.
Step 6.5: Find entry for Adobe Download Manager (aka getPlusPlus) in ‘Add/Remove Programs’. So that I can easily install Flash. Fuckin’ Flash. A <1MB download.
Yes, Adobe fuckin’ sucks.
Don’t even get me started on Adobe fuckin’ Reader. That’s just bloated crapware – way too many ‘fucks’ needed.
Update: Thanks to Wraith, there are links to get the damn thing without cursing.
Update 2: Thanks to baddra, a solution to never use Flash again (at least on YT) as well.
about 5 months ago
And having just gone all through that myself, recall that 90% of the flash CRAP that shows up in my browser is nothing but especially annoying ads. Feh!
Favorite firefox add-on of today: Flashblock
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
about 5 months ago
Completely agree, Tim. Flashblock rocks.
about 5 months ago
All true… except I think you missed the fact that there was a checkbox on the Flash download page for that McAfee trash (that should never be used… ever) which I instinctively unchecked. My distaste for Adobe grows.
about 5 months ago
Yes – I realized that later. Much later. I’m pretty sure I deselected it, maybe I accidentally re-loaded the page after?
Anyway, don’t see why I should have Adobe Download Manager installed. At all.
about 5 months ago
Adobe has this idea that they rule the software market. They make shit products that are bulky and try to take over and sabotage your system. They also think that having all sorts of custom GUI is a fantastic idea. Not so fucking fantastic for those of us who want to start and use the program in under a minute. In photoshop, it would take a full minute to start up, and that is with relatively few fonts to load. Bullshit. Get rid of the dumbass gui effects and add some less shittiness. I hate Adobe’s stupid download manager. Why can’t they just let you download the setup file without having you go through this long process of downloading download manager plugins for your browser. I don’t know whats up with my flash player, but if I right click on a flash game at all, it freezes my entire system, and it takes away my cursor. Why should a fucking browser plug-in freeze your system and steal you cursor. Another thing about flash player is that is takes an assload of resources to run. Whenever I watch a flash movie, my laptop gives my third degree burns on my lap. Adobe reader… holy damn. The mother of shit. Actually the hole PDF format in general is a dumb idea. Adobe had a brilliant idea. They thought, “Why don’t we make Adobe Acrobat slow as hell”. While everyone liked that idea, they figured that might hurt their business. So another Adobe developer was like, “Why don’t we add cute little icons to Acrobat, that way the user won’t mind how shit-mollasses-slow it is”. They obviously went with this idea. And trying to print a text only PDF is a nightmare. It treats a fucking text document as if it were an image. I would rather hand copy the document on a piece of computer paper in my own blood, scan the fucker and print that instead of printing in Adobe Acrobat. They don’t care about their market, because their market is in their pocket. The flash and PDF formats are too wide spread and standardized to do anything about it, and Adobe knows this well, and the companies that are dumbass enough to buy the professional version of Acrobat figure they might as well use it. So they will continue to make shit products with “special” GUI madness that break when the next version of the os comes out. Hopefully Microsoft’s Silverlight will catch on, because Microsoft does care about its customers. They don’t monopolize on every software they produce. They even offer some free products for developers. Yeah, they care about the developer, and realize that products gain momentum when developers have free access to make things. I want to become a CEO just so I can have my company not use adobe products. ever.
Done.
about 5 months ago
Wow. You successfully summed up everything I have a problem with in Adobe products. Respec’!
about 4 months ago
Sorry, the concept that Microsoft is somehow different to Adobe makes my head spin. Every you just said applies equally to Windows/Office as anything Adobe have done. They even stealth-install Microsoft DRM and .Net assistant in FF. I think MS taught Adobe everything they know.
about 5 months ago
I blogged about this issue and I have links that I have placed on my blog that reference an obscure Adobe ‘technote’ to resolve this issue.
Basically it provides links for the ‘direct’ setup file download, without the crapware.
I only received this link direct from Adobe after bitching at them via e-mail.
about 5 months ago
Ah. Thanks for the links, will trackback
Amazing that emailing Adobe support actually worked.
about 5 months ago
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http://seasonalmadness.wordpress.com
about 4 months ago
We did a comic about just this:
http://www.peebleslab.com/54
Enjoy!
about 3 months ago
You are far too kind to Adobe, the great Satan. Actually the Muslims should focus on the Adobe Satan to keep themselves occupied.
about 2 months ago
Wanna know what I did with that Flash Player Crap? I replaced it VLC. You can do the same with other external players. Here it is.
http://badrra.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/watch-youtube-using-vlc-mozilla-plugin/
and
http://badrra.wordpress.com/category/flv-videos/
Have fun
about 1 month ago
I uninstalled flash player. Adobe Download Manager is not listed in Vista’s “Control Panel>Program and Features”. Yet I still have “getPlusPlus for Adobe 16244″ listed in Firefox Ad-ons window under Plugins tab, even though I disabled it. It is annoying can not find this fire anywhere.
about 1 month ago
OK I found out this is the file responsible for “getPlusPlus for Adobe 16244″ appearing on Firefox Plugin list.
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\np_gp.dll
To remove it, I first closed the browser then, moved all the DLL files in “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\” to a temporary folder on my desktop, restarted Firefox and the plug in is gone. Checking the properties of np_gp.dll tells me
File desciption: getplusplusadobe16244
Type: Application Extension
File version: 1.6.2.44
Product name: getPlusPlus for Adobe 16244
Product version: 1.6.2.44
Copyright: Copyright (c) 2009
Size: 30.1 KB
Date modified: 9/3/2009 10/53 AM
Language: English (United States)