Comments on: Apple Pushes Safari "Update" on Windows

By: Matthew Krauss

Matthew Krauss — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 03:06:19 +0000

Yes iTunes is adware and should be treated as such; but this is also what you get for running an operating system that allows these things. Switch to Linux, be free from all that.

By: heinz wyttenbach

heinz wyttenbach — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:20:54 +0000

I don’t like to update my iPod software and avoid connecting it to my computer. It is none of their business what music I play only for them to send me loads of spam based on the info they get from me. After my last update a while ago the music on the iPod and in iTunes on the computer started to skip. I googled the problem and it said: update software it will fix the problem. I did, problem fixed but I also ended up with an unwanted program called Safari.
Such manipulation is unacceptable they should be investigated and fined. This is my computer and I trusted Apple. I paid for the iPod and if I want to purchase some program called “Safari” I will do just that but they have no right to sneak some garbage software that I don’t want on to my computer.

By: leland

leland — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:51:45 +0000

Maybe it’s not Safari specifically causing the crash. One thing iTunes/Safari bundle with the software is the Bonjour DNS service which some users have found to cause issues. I would think this the more likely culprit in this case. Safari is after all only a browser and as far as I can tell behaved enough not to cause issues itself. Bonjour however has caused me headaches on some of the computers on the network I manage.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:20:42 +0000

Anonymous wrote:

I was one of the users that update “installed safari”. It was 5am I was checking my email before I go to work, Itunes has an update. well I click ok on it without really reading it. well I get home from work and windows internet explorer just keeds crashing. I scan for virus/spyware I have 0 found, I restart my Pc and it still crashs. Well I notice I have new programs installed and its safari. I played with it then uninstalled it. now winddows internet explorer works fine. This is not good what they have done. having both will cause internet explorer to crash all the time.

Huh, it doesn't cause my Internet Explorer 7 to crash. That's really bad though if it was causing your IE to crash though, but submitting a bug report for that would probably just get ignored.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:18:51 +0000

I was one of the users that update “installed safari”. It was 5am I was checking my email before I go to work, Itunes has an update. well I click ok on it without really reading it. well I get home from work and windows internet explorer just keeds crashing. I scan for virus/spyware I have 0 found, I restart my Pc and it still crashs. Well I notice I have new programs installed and its safari. I played with it then uninstalled it. now winddows internet explorer works fine. This is not good what they have done. having both will cause internet explorer to crash all the time.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:00:26 +0000

Yes they should’ve used WPF. But no one does .NET mainstream today.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:55:47 +0000

natmaster wrote:

This is a microcosm of all the questionable tactics Apple uses because they can’t get users to legitimately like their products.

Er, yeah. That's it... nobody likes their products. How fiendish of them to have forced all of those products on everyone over the years.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:31:34 +0000

natmaster wrote:

This is a microcosm of all the questionable tactics Apple uses because they can’t get users to legitimately like their products.

Well, they can get people to like some of their products, but I think Safari on Windows is a much harder game.

Anonymous wrote:

It’s not faster. Not even close. page loads are minimally faster than firefox, but start times and even accessing menus is sluggish.

Next Wednesday we're putting several of the mainstream browsers up against each other so we'll find out then.

Lashiec wrote:

Nothing new really, I only have QuickTime installed, and every time I launch Apple Software Update (manually), I see there the option to “update” to iTunes (NO WAY!). Thankfully, you can ignore it.

Huh, I never knew that. I've always installed iTunes with QuickTime so I've never seen that notification.

leland wrote:

I try my best not to install iTunes because of how much I dislike it.

In the past I've tried to avoid it like the plague, but I bought an iPhone since I really liked the device and you have to install iTunes in order to get the darn thing activated.

By: leland

leland — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:36:24 +0000

I try my best not to install iTunes because of how much I dislike it. When I need to add media to my iPod I use Floola [floola.com] For Quicktime there is Quicktime Alternative of VLC or KMPlayer. And of course Safari is not really necessary at all. One thing I noticed about iTunes that really annoyed me a lot was that it was putting the Bonjour DNS service on your computer. Just what you need another service running in the background to steal processor cycles and RAM. I think that’s what really turned me off to iTunes along with the helper task and all the other background apps it comes with.

Besides I know their computers come with background tasks that are supposed to be self healing mechanisms but can in reality work much like cancer cells do in the human body. The computer thinks everything is fine and starts replicating the bad hard drive blocks and before you know it the computer blows up. I have seen this happen to many people. It’s what has helped third party tools makers sell so much software for fixing Macs.

Anyway, that’s my thoughts on Apple software and hardware for the moment.