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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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Posted by John C. Welch at 18:33 | Permalink
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Good point, and one that your "brother of another mother" The Angry Drunk didn't quite touch on in his post. He skewered the entitletard issue well but only touched on the hypocrisy from a competitive standpoint. You highlighted the hypocrisy from a [dis]functional, two-faced, do-you-kiss-your-mother-with-that-dirty-whore-mouth standpoint.
Bravo, John.
Posted by:
Wrinkle_In_Time 
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April 18, 2008 10:20 PM
Nice ad hominem. Now, about the actual point he's making...?
Posted by:
LKM |
April 19, 2008 2:55 PM
LKM:
He's bitching about something that is no worse whatsoever than what FF does. FF installs, now *completely* on the sly mind you, that stupid crash reporter application. They used to make you opt-out of it, now of course, it's buried in FF. In FF3 on OS X, it's inside the bundle, but, it's a separate application. Do I get the option of whether I want yet another crash reporting application on my system?
No. Yet it's okay for FF to do this, but not Apple, even though, as of current versions of FF, Apple is far more transparent about Safari than FF is about its crash reporter.
FF forces me to *opt out* of copying IE data when I first run it.
FF forces me to *opt out* of making it my default browser.
FF forces me to *opt out* of having it check to see if it is my default browser every time I launch it.
So in other words, unless i *click a radio button/check box*, FF will change my system configuration.
Tell me again how all of this is okay, yet somehow, Apple is committing a mortal sin with Safari on Windows, because I can tell you, I would love NOTHING more than to see the sophistry employed by you to do so.
Posted by:
John C. Welch 
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April 19, 2008 3:38 PM
Occasionally I would catch my mother doing something she had told me not to do. If I called her on it, the standard response was "do as a I say, not as I do".
Perhaps Dotzler is attempting to emulate my mother...?
Posted by:
Fred |
April 20, 2008 8:32 AM
