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So thanks to some folks on Twitter, I hear this story...it is a story of such astounding stupidity that it beggared even my imagination, because it spoke of such arrogance, such a lack of thought towards one's customers that it couldn't be true.
Yes, an installer with worse habits than a CS3 installer. You doubt me. I see it in your eyes. You doubt me. Well, here, behold the preflight script of which I speak:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
ps axco pid,command | grep Safari | awk '{ print $1; }' | xargs kill -9
ps axco pid,command | grep firefox-bin | awk '{ print $1; }' | xargs kill -9
exit 0
Yeah. That's right. It kills Firefox and Safari, without warning, without dialog, without any kind of "You might have been working on something, I'll ask you if I can do this". Nope. None of that shit. You run this installer, bang, Safari and Firefox are dead. It's for a browser plugin.
Yes, I know, what if you're running Opera? Well, I guess you damned Norsky hippies get away scott-free then.
Who makes this idiotic installer?
Garmin. It's their Communicator Plugin. Yep. A fucking GPS kills your browsers so it can install a WEB BROWSER PLUGIN.
You know what? I've never been as fucking glad that I own a TomTom as today.
Morons
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©2003-until I'm fucking dead and then some. you steal my shit, and I will fuck with you like you were a lonely shepherd's slowest sheep.
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