Vuze may not be the best Torrent ápp, but i've always liked it in both it's current and previous incarnations.
That ends today. I'm not talking about the fact that the version updater has been hanging on my machine for weeks and i've just been cancelling it. That's a bug and acceptable. My stupidity told me that reinstalling would be the way around this bug, and it was. How ridiculous is it that it turns out i'd have been better off leaving things as they were rather than fixing the problem. Read on.
As of right now, 11:25am GMT on 16/10/2009, if you install Vuze on your machine like a normal person and pay no real attention to how you might be being tricked, poor excuse for a search engine Ask.com will invade your Firefox settings without any prompting.
It's not that Vuze hasn't been shipped with a shitty Ask.com customised toolbar for some time now. No sir. It's the fact that they have gone completely off installation Wizard convention and implemented an unticked "Customize" checkbox at the very start of the configuration process. If you don't tick this you are simply thrust through the entire setup process without any choices to make. How fucking handy for getting a few hundred thousand unwanted toolbar installs. Needless to say from my anger, the shitty toolbar and all it's unwanted configuration changes are part of the default.
I genuinely can't figure out how to undo the mess this has made. I will find out, but that's time I have to spend.
I also have to find time to find a different client.
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