On 25/01/11 09:41, Nathan Mercer wrote:
> On Jan 25, 9:34 am, Enkidu<enkidu....@com.cliffp.com> wrote:
>> On 25/01/11 07:39, Nathan Mercer wrote:> On Jan 24, 11:29 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro<l...@geek-
>>> central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>>>> <http://www.planitagency.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/too_many_toolb...>
>>
>>> so other Ooperating Systems don't support 3rd party toolbars being
>>> installed?
>>
>> It depends more on the browser than on the OS. I use Firefox and I've
>> got a couple of plugins that I use that have toolbars. I could
>> theoretically fill up the browser window as in that example.
>>
>> On Windows what annoys me are the third party programs that come with
>> their own toolbars or someone else's toolbar that they try to get you to
>> install. Quite often the toolbar is installed if you fail to check off
>> some easily missed checkbox, and it is then hard to get rid of.
>
> Its not really Windows fault that it is so popular that so many people
> use it, that so many people develop addins for browsers that run on it
> etc
>
Nathan, I said "On Windows ... etc, etc". I wasn't picking on Windows
but on the third parties. I used to be a Windows MVP before I moved to
supporting Linux... And the 'problem' does exist because Windows is
'popular', but as you say that's not Windows fault.
Cheers,
Cliff
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