Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Mon 27th Jul 2009 20:53 UTC
Adobe Flash. It's everywhere. Not all of us want it, but many are forced into submission simply because it's weaseled its way into a myriad of applied and common uses. This just makes all the worse the news that a vulnerability in Adobe Flash, Reader, and Acrobat applications is allowing malcontents to exploit computers with these products installed.
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RE[4]: Past time... - make it modular
by jabbotts on Wed 29th Jul 2009 17:37
in reply to "RE[3]: Past time... - true.. but"
Member since:2007-09-06
Allow AIR and PDF reader to be installed seporately and stop pushing Yahoo and Google browser bars in along side them.
Include more plugin modules on the install media and less hard coded functions in the software.
Don't default to everything installed in software suites.
Don't default to everything in memory through pre-loaders when these things are not needed outside of the program.
Stop displaying the Photoshop splash screen above everything else so it can dominate the screen while listing loading plugins.
I think there is much more they could do for the benefit of the customer.
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2006-05-11
Things are not that simple. I hate bloat, too. But each new feature between release is always really required by someone, and usually ones of a considerable number. Companies like Adobe really review the priority of every required features and actually always filters out those required by fewer customers. As one said, 80% customers need 20% features, but it is always NOT the same 20%.