yonmei

11:30 am: I Officially Hate Adobe
Also, people who make use of Flash when they don't have to. Which, if you ask me, they never do.

I've given up on trying not to have Flash installed on my computer, because so many websites use it for every little damn thing. Even the site stats Wordpress provides come with pretty graphs in Flash.

Well. New install of Firefox needed for my work computer, okay: done. New install of Flash needed for my work computer *sigh* Okay, will do...

...can't. Every time I try to install Flash, it comes up with an error message saying "No, you need Firefox". There is no means of telling it that I have Firefox, that the exe install file that is telling me smugly "no, you need Firefox" was downloaded using Firefox: it simply says "You need Firefox before I can install" and sits there, doing nowt. You can't report the error anywhere: you can't alter the install program: you just have to delete it and do without Flash.

There's nothing helpful about this on the Adobe site. Obviously, they don't have a support e-mail to contact: you can register and ask on the discussion boards from other users, but frankly I hate those: also, since I have Firefox, the problem must be that Adobe Flash is looking for a specific directory name, and it's probably still looking for Firefox v2 and I have v3, so the only solution is to wait until someone at Adobe realises, behind their wall of non-communication, that in the outside world people using Firefox v3 cannot install Flash.

Tags: computer disasters, just my life really, powerful speech vs. powerless silence, venting, wanting to fire people for being stupid