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This is a good first step. Now Apple needs to stop checking the box for "New Software" items by default. With that change, I think I'd be pretty happy to let the Apple Software Update service back on my Windows machine.So when Asa Dotzler, of Mozilla, and the co-founder of the Spread Firefox project, (read: The "community" marketing arm of Mozilla) penned that as part of his criticisms of Apple's Software Update utility on Windows, I bet he was thinking about the changes he would ensure Mozilla makes to Firefox 3.
No more installing the crash utility by default. After all, that's not strictly a part of Firefox, so for Mozilla to do that would be rather hypocritical, and Asa is an honorable man.
No more automatically selecting the "Import from IE" option, that will, of course, in the final release, default to the "Do nothing" option. After all, Asa wouldn't want to force someone to opt out of having personal data imported into Firefox when he's railing about Apple forcing people to opt out of installing Safari. Because after all, to not do so would be hypocritical, and of course, Asa is, an honorable man.
Finally, it goes without saying that Firefox will never again present dialogs that force the user to opt out of Firefox both making itself the default browser on Windows and checking constantly to make sure it is. "Sneaking" configuration changes by users whilst shouting "J'accuse!" at Apple for "sneaking" an installation of Safari, said installation being itself a configuration change of a user's computer would be quite hypocritical, and of course, Asa is, an honorable man.
I eagerly await his next blog post clearing the air on this, and I think we should all let Asa know how excited we are at these impending changes to Firefox.
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