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These days everyone and their mother has one that they try to get to install.
I don't want any of them.
I don't want any of them.
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I hate those things!
The bing bar is the worst. They sneak stuff in through those updates. When that popup asked me if I wanted to install it, I clicked no, but clicking no would not let me continue. Those bastards rigged it so that I had to install it to do anything. Low and behold, it contained spyware. Thanks a lot bing!
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My mom has like 5 or 6. I hid them all except for one. She asked me what happened to her screen and why did they go away. I told her and she was upset. I asked her if she used them and she said no.
Sigh.Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst. - Starship TroopersComment
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Google Chrome. Use it. Love it.Comment
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It's what I use. It's so much faster than the other browsers. My mom gets so confused when she can't find the IE browser icon on my laptop.Originally posted by AdminAssistant View PostViolence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst. - Starship TroopersComment
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I love only having one bar and not having to constantly reset Firefox to Google instead of Bing or Yahoo.Comment
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I've seen computers with literally half the screen filled with IE toolbars. And people use them like that! Yeah, I don't get it either.Comment
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That's what gets me: even if each of them has some feature or other you like, put them all together and it takes up too much screen space. Especially, on modern computers, because it's height. It wouldn't be as bad if they only took a little width instead
I still like Safari. The title bar, a strip the same height for the address, back/forwards buttons, and search, and another a bit shorter for bookmarks. Even the tab row goes away unless there is more than one.
(and what drives me up the wall more than anything else is trying to use a computer where they've gotten rid of the address bar! Why the [ahem] would you want to do that, and why is it sometimes so hard to find again?)"My in-laws are country people and at night you can hear their distinctive howl."Comment
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To most novice computer users, any search toolbar = the address bar. Even if using the address bar, they usually don't actually type URLs into it.Comment
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I went to graphic design school, you would not believe how many people still use google as an address bar. These are people who work on computers daily, DAILY! Seriously they would e-mail themselves a youtube link or something and then instead of just clicking it they would copy it into google....
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Gah! I hate browser toolbars with a passion!
Just spent the day at a relative's place, and their IE (only choice >_< ) had 3 or 4 of the stupid things. And I know they not only don't use them, but I'm pretty sure they have no idea how they got on there in the first place.
^-.-^Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - DresdenComment
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I installed Yahoo IM on my laptop recently. I specifically made sure to uncheck the "Install Yahoo! Toolbar" box upon installation.
Guess what happened?
Yep, it installed anyway. WTF Yahoo? Why even give us the option if you're gonna force it on us anyway?Comment
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Beyond toolbars, I just hate when you tell the computer not to do something and it does it anyway.Comment
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what bugs the crap outta me is when I try and install a PURCHASED piece of software (ya know I went to the brick and mortar store and bought the physical box + DVD) and I have to fight with the installation wizard to NOT install 10 pieces of crap brower helpers/toolbars, programs that are CLEARLY meant to just dump junk on your machine, pure advertising programs, internet trackers, demo-ware, etc. I swear sometimes you are not able to install the REAL program without fighting with it.
another thing that bugs me is when exiting a program, everytime it pesters me asking if I want to install some toolbar/browser helper or crap-ware program
NO NO NO NO!!!!!!! just ask me ONCE and be doen with it.
I like a minimialist browser and ONLY the programs I want. Please STFU and leave me in peaceI'm lost without a paddle and I'm headed up sh*t creek.
I got one foot on a banana peel and the other in the Twilight Zone.
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Ugh, my dad has the Bing toolbar.
Also a bunch of stupid little widgets on the desktop (browser add-ons), mostly shopping stuff. My pet peeve now is something called DealGong, every time I search for something on amazon, etc it pops up with something nowhere close to what I'm looking for.
One of these pieces of crap must be what's causing FF to die every so often..."Any state, any entity, any ideology which fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete."Comment
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