Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update 311
pcardno writes "It seems it's not just Microsoft that have spotted a good opportunity to distribute their software through Firefox Addons. On installing the latest annoying, sysbar bubble based Java update, my Firefox informed me that I had a wonderful new Java addon automatically. Here's the addon screenshot. Yes, I could opt out of it, but why are Sun installing Addons to my Firefox without me making specific choices in the application itself? To be clear — I have never chosen to install this Addon, yet it has been installed without my permission with the latest Java Update."
You get what you pay for. (Score:5, Funny)
You get what you pay for... and then some.
Beurk (Score:1, Funny)
Man, Windows GUI really looks like ass.
Or is that a screenshot from 1990?
Malware (Score:3, Funny)
Watch out! It seems that some other malicious updaters installed IEtab and a twitter addon in your firefox, too!
I think you have a bigger problem (Score:1, Funny)
It looks like your desktop color depth comes from an 8-bit Nintendo pallet :(
Re:Stop this right now (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like a great idea for an extension!
Re:You're right--convenience sucks (Score:5, Funny)
It's automatically updating the entire JRE, and you're worried about some little plugin? That's like opting in to unprotected anal sex and then freaking out at the post-coital cuddling.
Re:You get what you pay for. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You're right--convenience sucks (Score:5, Funny)
Can you phrase that in some form of a car analogy?
Re:You're right--convenience sucks (Score:5, Funny)
Its like getting a call from an auto dealer with the words "Thanks for buying the car, by the way there's a body in the trunk."
Re:You're right--convenience sucks (Score:5, Funny)
It's like opting in to unprotected anal sex in the back of a voltswagen, then freaking out at the small back seat size when in post-coital cuddling?
How it happened: (Score:2, Funny)
Sun executives were sitting around one day at a 3-hour lunch getting drunk and making rude remarks to the waitress. One of them said, "How can we sink the company?" After considerable deliberation, one of them had an idea. "I know, we'll get ourselves on Slashdot for doing something dastardly." Another executive said, "Brilliant! No reputable programmer will ever take a job at Sun again."
Then they had to think of something sufficiently sneaky. That's difficult for a drunk person, especially a drunk person that makes millions of dollars a year. That kind of money decreases initiative. Then one said, "We'll just imitate Microsoft! Almost everything they do is sneaky or mean."
And that's what they did.
Warning: Some of this may be fiction. Or, it may be true.
Re:You're right--convenience sucks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Unlike Microsoft, this one benign and documente (Score:3, Funny)
Hell if they will do the bathrooms too I'd pay them.
Re:bitch, bitch, bitch. You wanted Java, right? (Score:1, Funny)
java is to javascript as car is to carpet.
Re:You're right--convenience sucks (Score:1, Funny)
Which means that, apparently, there is an even more bloated version of Java out there.
that'll be when you start running Java apps :-)
Re:Obviously this is something you need.... (Score:4, Funny)
It's the same as IE and Office being preloaded with Windows so that they pop up instantly after your new 5 minute boot time.
there, fixed that for you.
Re:You're right--convenience sucks (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like a very uncomfortable place.
Re:You're right--convenience sucks (Score:5, Funny)
Did you install Java to have it NOT work?
Based on my experiences with Java on Linux, I always assumed Sun thought that's what I was trying to do.