Last night I accessed the website content that required Flash Player plugin. Why would I need it? I had CS3 Web Premium already installed on my PowerBook. I was certain that it included the Flash Player. Anyway, I clicked the download button already. It downloaded, installed and nothing. A blank, white hole without any buttons to push. Restarted Safari, same white hole appeared. Since upgrading to Leopard I noticed that Safari behaved weird sometimes with plugins that worked before upgrade.
I fired the Firefox on the same site, the Flash Player appeared with all its buttons functional. Meanwhile for some reason the Adobe Updater started and asked if I wanted to download 136.5 MB of updates now or later. I let it rip. What choice did I have? Now or later, how about, go away you bloatware.
An ugly window opens up with the question – do you want to upgrade now? close all browsers and push go button. So I did. A long empty bar appeared and started filling up with a blue moving stripe. It stopped moving and got stuck almost halfway trough the empty bar. I waited ten or fifteen minutes. Nothing. still stuck in the same spot, right under the letter h in Flash. Cancel, reboot and try again. Same thing, stuck under letter h. Enough fun for today, it is too late, go sleep, will try in the morning.
In the morning the blue stripe got stuck in the same spot, I let sit there for half an hour. It started moving again and got stuck close to the end. I waited another half an hour. Nothing. Cancel and reboot. Do it again. Stuck again at the end. Wait, talk on the phone, do not pay attention to it. Check fifteen minutes later – success, done.
I do not have any problems upgrading any other applications. None require closing browsers and upgrade themselves while previous version is still running.
It is obvious from this abnormal behavior that something is wrong with Adobe software. What is in 136.5 MB of upgrades for one application? Replacement of the whole code that can not even replace itself?
Presentation of the Adobe wares is excellent. Watching the Flash demos on their website makes you want to have the software. That is how they got me to buy their new CS3 for Mac. Perhaps the people making the presentations should be involved in writing the application software, so the customer will get exactly what is being advertised, not the extreme bloatware that is being produced now.
