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Real Name:Paul Barton
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Type: Review
Date: 17 Apr 2008 06:53
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I didn't actually get to the Player itself, instead I watched dumfounded as an embedded downloader in Firefox ('Install' panel/link didn't appear in Omniweb at all) proudly proclaimed that it was 'installing' when all it was doing was downloading. After that step an application launched itself from a temporary directory and proceeded to 'install' Adobe Air, when in fact again all it was doing was actually downloading. I gave up on this entire opaque process when the temporary launched-with-no-interaction application wanted my OS admin password. As such take my ratings for the 'download' process rather than the app. Give me a proper Mac installer that I actually download and launch myself from the Finder and I might get to evaluate the player itself one day. I would guess that PC users are used to obscure processes launching themselves in Windows and popping up dialog windows. For me as a Mac user this whole means of installing a simple media player is unacceptable. Total fail Mr. Adobe… |
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