As I haven't a clue why LULU wanted to install the extension, I hit the 'Reject' button on Kerish Doctor 2016 as well as WinPatrol (which by now was also flagging up a similar alert.) Picky to the extent that any developer who comes along and starts loading it without a word of explanation as to what they're doing doesn't get on my Christmas card list. I am very, very picky about what I allow to be added to my browser. Installed the new extension: Soda PDF 8 Creator 1.0 to web browser Mozilla Firefox." I then continued with this installation, taking a screen capture at every stage - standard practice, smart not stupid - with those two check boxes unchecked and the SKIP hit by way of testing out its meaning and then, then: And only if you think SKIP means skipping an entire process, rather than skipping your opt-outs.) But only if you're more trustful than I am. (You could, of course, trust the developer and ignore the boxes and merely click on SKIP. And then, with both boxes unchecked, click on the SKIP button. first uncheck Bing, then uncheck Ad Aware Companion. Trying it the other way around won't work. To uncheck the Bing takeover, it's necessary to leave the Ad Aware Companion box checked. At the next screen though, the user certainly does need to be smart, even if the install routine isn't: both the check boxes for something called Ad-Aware Companion and the substitution by Microsoft's Bing search engine of whatever you've set up as your home page in your browser (mine's 'blank') are already ticked. I also checked the install boxes for the Soda PDF8 (Main Application) and the Soda PDF 8 Modules. In my case, I checked the boxes for 'optimized installation', 'create desktop shortcut', 'run Soda PDF 8', and (with some misgivings) 'install Soda PDF Notification System', this otherwise garrulous developer not bothering to explain what that system might be.
#Soda pdf pro 9 installation software
Installation offers a default click-thru option - something no-one should ever agree to with any software, if, as here, they've a choice of options - and an 'Advanced options', which in typical style of just about all software nowadays, isn't advanced at all, rather a means whereby the user can exert at least some control over what gets shoved onto her / his machine. The word "hubris" could well have been invented for LULU Software, because its slogan - SMART & SIMPLE - is shredded by an installation routine that not only is one of the worst I've ever encountered, it's so epically counter-productive that the developer shouldn't be surprised if many a prospective customer gives up on Soda PDF because they've lost the will to live.
0 kommentar(er)
