Why? If you don't want RealPlayer don't download it. They won't bundle RealPlayer with Firefox. Nothing will change for you.K.I.L.E.R said:I HATE THIS!
I HATE real player.
london-boy said:I've never understood why people hate RealPlayer so much. It's defintely not a good player, but it's certainly not as bad as some other more mainstream players that begin with a Q and end with UICKTIME...
Well, upon installation of RP8, you had to untick dozend of boxes to disable adverts, part of them were skillfully aranged, so that you had a window, 4 unticked "annoy me" boxes and a scrollbar - you would expect the rest of them to be unticked aswell. if you scrolled down you see that every remaining box is ticked however...london-boy said:I've never understood why people hate RealPlayer so much. It's defintely not a good player, but it's certainly not as bad as some other more mainstream players that begin with a Q and end with UICKTIME...
This harkens back to 1999-2001 when RealPlayer got increasingly more intrusive and used deceptive tricks to get users to enable hard to disable options at install time. (Edit: I see Npl already covered this.) There was also several privacy issues (another example) leading to bad press and user outcry. They later tried to reinvent/redeem themselves in 2002 by launching the Helix initiative. Today's RealPlayer, while, IMO, still being a bloated annoying piece of crap, does not have any of these issues.london-boy said:I've never understood why people hate RealPlayer so much.
Aye, Quicktime isn't so bad in my opinion. The problem is that it takes some hunting on their website to find the download of Quicktime that doesn't include iTunes (now that software I despise).Npl said:Quicktime is lean&mean in comparison.
Chalnoth said:Software developers that try to do that for no good reason should be shot.
london-boy said:I've never understood why people hate RealPlayer so much. It's defintely not a good player, but it's certainly not as bad as some other more mainstream players that begin with a Q and end with UICKTIME...
_xxx_ said:Second that. I hate that with passion.
Fourthed. And QT has a habit of re-enabling itself in the startup group necessitating yet another visit to the config utility...CosmoKramer said:I third that.
That would be because it doesn't.arrrse said:And yet nobody complains about the official firefox install including google toolbar...