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You're suppose to select the download for firefox yourself because by default the IE download option is selected by adobe. It's not that it's detecting your browser wrong.

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Hmm, good thinking. I just tried it with it with default FF skin, the problem still exists.

Whichever way it is, in my own personal opinion, it should detect it correctly as a FF.

Something else about W7, I am starting to like this thing. My previous post about the fonts can be disregarded :)

I was on XP all the way until, hmm..let's say today :)

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For god sakes. You're getting it all wrong. It's not telling you that you have IE it's asking you to select the browser version yourself. Click the circle below the IE option and you'll see it says "Browser: Firefox, Safari, Opera". What part of "select version to download" is so hard to understand?

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Let me rephrase again :) In my own personal opinion, I shouldn't have to do this, It should detect the browser automatically.

LAZY!

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Its not being lazy, they are just pointing out that in previous versions of Windows when visiting the website in what ever browser it would automatically detect which browser you were visiting from and redirect to the appropriaate page.

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To people that say I am lazy, what do you think requires more work: take a screenshot, start a new topic, upload the screenshot and point the obvious or simply click the radio button and be done with it? Don't get offended by someone pointing out what one believes to be !right.

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Has it occurred to you that you're using a pre-release version of a product that won't even be on the market for another six months? Adobe simply hasn't added detection for Windows 7 yet, that's all there is to it. Presumably Adobe will do so once it's closer to release and they've properly tested compatibility with Windows 7.

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Has it occurred to you that you're using a pre-release version of a product that won't even be on the market for another six months? Adobe simply hasn't added detection for Windows 7 yet, that's all there is to it. Presumably Adobe will do so once it's closer to release and they've properly tested compatibility with Windows 7.

Well it better be fixed. Let us put a scenario, hypothetical case.

1. A tech guy installed FF on Joe's laptop and set it as the default browser

2. Joe goes to a web site that requires an updated Flash player

3. Joe doesn't have a clue what he is running, he just wants to view the web site

4. A dialog is shown on the screen about a plug in. He clicks next, it fails and there is this "Manual" button in the dialog.

5. Joe clicks "Manual" and he is taken to a nice misleading web page that makes him think he is running IE. He clicks "Install", tries again to view the site but it doesn't work because he installed the add-on for the wrong browser.

hdood: Isn't this a Windows beta discussion area? :)

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What if the user agent string was modified. IMO, for crucial browser plugins, it is better to rely on user input than on user agent strings that can easily be spoofed.

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if he just wanted to view the website, he would get the remote install on the website itself, which is autodetect

Im shure it will work as suposed after win7 releace

ultimately i agree with Hdood

Well it better be fixed. Let us put a scenario, hypothetical case.

1. A tech guy installed FF on Joe's laptop and set it as the default browser

2. Joe goes to a web site that requires an updated Flash player

3. Joe doesn't have a clue what he is running, he just wants to view the web site

4. A dialog is shown on the screen about a plug in. He clicks next, it fails and there is this "Manual" button in the dialog.

5. Joe clicks "Manual" and he is taken to a nice misleading web page that makes him think he is running IE. He clicks "Install", tries again to view the site but it doesn't work because he installed the add-on for the wrong browser.

hdood: Isn't this a Windows beta discussion area? :)

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What if the user agent string was modified. IMO, for crucial browser plugins, it is better to rely on user input than on user agent strings that can easily be spoofed.

can't see why anyone would want to spoof something like this :D

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Really no different than netflix requiring wmp 11 to install it's plugin. I am sure by RTM time most of these issues will be resolved.

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Well it better be fixed. Let us put a scenario, hypothetical case.

1. A tech guy installed FF on Joe's laptop and set it as the default browser

Isn't this missing a step zero where the "tech guy" installs a pre-release version of an operating system that isn't even out for another six months on Joe's laptop?

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Sending an email to Adobe at this stage would be a bad idea as (as hdood has pointed out) this version of W7 is a pre-release.

The problem with the auto-detect is that it takes the user to the wrong web site page where he has to choose what OS he/she is running. Yes I know it is a pre-release of Windows, but aren't we supposed to report errors?

Below is a comparison what happens when I use XP and try to install the player and Windows 7.

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Sending an email to Adobe at this stage would be a bad idea as (as hdood has pointed out) this version of W7 is a pre-release.

The problem with the auto-detect is that it takes the user to the wrong web site page where he has to choose what OS he/she is running. Yes I know it is a pre-release of Windows, but aren't we supposed to report errors?

Below is a comparison what happens when I use XP and try to install the player and Windows 7.

There is no point in wasting time on such a silly thing like this. Even if you do take the time to send an email to Adobe, 99.9% chance they simply send you a generic "thank you for the feedback" since they probably already are aware of it and simply putting it off until RTM.

If someone was smart enough to know what Windows 7 is and install RC, they are fully capable of figuring out the proper version to download for flash and click the install button manually.

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I don't understand why some of the posters above get so upset? I simply reported something which I believe to be wrong hence "The Beta Discussion" forum.

I believe some of you get the wrong picture here.

The chances are if Adobe's web site uses some type of technique to detect user's browser, other web sites might be using the same technique too and all of them will be broken. You fail to think outside the square.

As a quality assurance agent, there is no way this will go beyond me and will have to be fixed in order to maintain 100% compatibility. If this does not get fixed and gets released like this, many web sites (that use the same technique) will be broken but I guess you don't care about it so that's fine for you but not for the rest of the world.

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I don't understand why some of the posters above get so upset? I simply reported something which I believe to be wrong hence "The Beta Discussion" forum.

I believe some of you get the wrong picture here.

The chances are if Adobe's web site uses some type of technique to detect user's browser, other web sites might be using the same technique too and all of them will be broken. You fail to think outside the square.

As a quality assurance agent, there is no way this will go beyond me and will have to be fixed in order to maintain 100% compatibility. If this does not get fixed and gets released like this, many web sites (that use the same technique) will be broken but I guess you don't care about it so that's fine for you but not for the rest of the world.

Sorry if you felt that I was being offensive, I was just joking around in a light manner. But my only point was, Joe being a basic computer user, wouldn't really be working on 7 in the first place and we have to keep in mind, we're still in the RC version of 7.

I had issues with Adobe Flash myself, it thought I was using Windows 2000 or something, and was trying to download the installer for the same. I had to manually choose the Windows Vista Option.

I think the OS has just released and while the good people at Adobe are working on making all their applications 7 compatible, I'm sure this hasn't gone without their notice. I'm pretty sure, by the time 7 releases, this hoopla would be fixed.

Sorry again!

Regards,

Sibot

PS: I don't know if this is happening on all OSs but I'm facing this issue for the first time and only with 7.

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sibot, you are fine, don't worry about it. My post above is aimed at other posters that obviously lack interpersonal and communication skills.

Anyway, I believe it is not something that Adobe needs to fix. There are many web sites that might be using the same technique.

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sibot, you are fine, don't worry about it. My post above is aimed at other posters that obviously lack interpersonal and communication skills.

Anyway, I believe it is not something that Adobe needs to fix. There are many web sites that might be using the same technique.

Well that's one thing you do have wrong, why would websites be coded to recognise pre-release operating systems as a matter of urgency?

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