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* Earle Martin <hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-12-16 14:28]: > Every time it launches because I've encountered a PDF [cf. > hates passim] somewhere on the web, it brings up a modal dialog > telling me I should download about 5MB of "upgrade" because > there's a new "feature" that, er, lets people add background > sounds to PDF files. Okay, this isn't "check for updates" related hate, but it's Reader hate nonetheless: so I went into the options and disabled Javascript, because, heck, I don't want random PDFs running random code on my machine. Right? Well, every time I quit the damn thing, it tells me the document in question uses Javascript and asks me to enable JS. What the...? Apparently, some other plugins need Javascript to work and won't function correctly if you disable it. There is NO WAY to disable JS SEPARATELY for documents vs. plugins. Yeah, really damn clever. (My solution was to remove a dozen-odd plugins. Who needs that crap anyway; plus I get faster startup times. Win-win!) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;
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