Friday, April 10, 2009

bundled programs and toolbars

OK Im back after a long blogging break! My moan today is about bundled programs...you know you get ccleaner and it comes with Yahoo toolbar, you get foxit reader (try it, its 20X faster than adobe reader) and you get its stupid toolbar with loads of crap on it.

I understand the necessity of advertising and marketing, but when are they gonna learn that you make your own product less attractive by forcing this stuff on you...why not bundle it but have it unticked by default, and give the users a choice? Makes more sense to me!

Oh and talking of toolbars why do people not realise that their web page viewing area is getting smaller and smaller by having these waste of time toolbars? If you dont use them more than five times a day get rid of them (view/toolbars/untick) and just maske a bookmark link instaed. I mean if you dont want to see the websites why dont you just get AOL? And if you dont use Google as your home page (how do you cope?) Firefox has a google search link on top anyway.