__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 21 June 2006 10:47 \__
> John Bailo wrote:
>
>>
>> Ok, so I clicked on a link in Firefox/XP and this dialog pops up about
>> do I want to install Acrobat 7.0 and I clicked "ok" as in, "yeah, sure,
>> go ahead" but I wanted to keep working.
>>
>> Possible?
>>
>> Nope -- the dialogs kept popping into the foreground. Downloading.
>> Ready to install...all the while I was trying to write something this
>> stupid install kept telling me it's whole life history!
>>
>> And then, the final insult. It wanted to reboot?!?!
>>
>> REBOOT?
>>
>> For a document reader?
>>
>> What kind of crazy insano OS is XP ?!?!
>
> I agree with you there, a naff installer and because I wasn't used to this
> sort of thing in linux I didn't spot the toolbar bit that Roy mentioned. It
> so happens I did have a toolbar, then I had two. Carry on like this and
> they wont be room for the pages we browse.
This applies to Windows only, I suspect (I am not sure about Mac OS). This
didn't happen to me under Linux and I am assuming that you refer to your
experience with Linux in the paragraph above. If you follow the link I
provided, you'll see that I pointed this out in another NG.
As for toobar 'real estate', some toolbars can be fitted nicely, shrunk down,
folded/unfolded, or even be invoked upon some key presses.
> I can't remember it asking for a reboot, there isn't a reason why anything
> other than a kernel or kernel modules change would need one. Though it
> would probably need the browser restarted.
Yes, definitely. Firfox also requires that enabling of extensions will have
it restarted. But I don't have (much) experience with 1.5, let alone the 2.0
testing builds, so maybe this has changed/will change.
> Then after it is onboard, could you see or feel any difference other than a
> splash screen? Seemed the same to me.
Not in Linux. I was used to (uglier version of) version 5.
Best wishes,
Roy
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