Mele20
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join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| reply to Hangetsu
Re: Apple using iTunes update to auto-install Safari
Get yourself a classic HIPS to control Apple Software Updater. I have Safari for Windows and if it had decent cookie handling I would use it a lot because it has sharper display on my flat panel digital LCD monitor than does Fx, IE or Opera. Safari is far superior in ease of reading a web page when used on LCD's than any other browser. It is optimized for LCD monitors and you can really tell the difference.
Safari though tried to install ITunes (whiich I have no interest in having) through the Apple Software Updater that comes with Safari. First time it tried, ProcessGuard blocked it and asked me what I wanted to do. I told PG to block it permanently.  I don't have QuickTime as that is a very ill behaved player. I use Winamp only. If something won't play in Winamp then I simply don't see or hear it. So, for me, the Apple Software Updater came with Safari rather than ITunes and tries to install ITunes instead of Safari.
BTW, I love that Safari has no phishing filter. I hate those things and turn them off in other browsers. People who are so naive as to fall for phishing schemes probably shouldn't be on the internet.
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"The same ferocity that our founders devoted to protect the freedom and independence of the press is now appropriate for our defense of the freedom of the internet. The stakes are the same: the survival of our Republic". Al Gore, The Assault on Reason |
