On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:05:15 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> I'm still trying to figure out what happened to VLC.  I have had very
>>> reasonable versions running for ~years on a few boxes, including
>>> WinXP. Recently tried to get one for my wife's laptop, and they
>>> "Recommended" installation of Yahoo! toolbar.
>>
>> That's one of my biggest pet peeves.  In my old job, I would help sites
>> set up something that required Java, but explicitly needed an otherwise
>> barebones browser (ie, no addons).  Sun used to automatically install
>> the Google toolbar, so I'd have to install Java and then uninstall the
>> toolbar.
>>
>> They changed that behaviour, but I hate when installers install crap I
>> don't want and didn't ask for.
> 
> Usually with these installers, there's a checkbox you can uncheck to
> tell it not to install the other crap you don't want. Usually. If you
> remember to turn it off. (And don't do a silent install or something.)

Yes, there is, and what I was specifically talking about was early 
versions of Java that didn't have the option to not install the Google 
toolbar.

> Unfortunately, this kind of nonsense seems to be a growing trend.

That it does.

Jim

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