On 2/27/10, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe you could just spread peanut butter all over the road at the main gate. > Tell 'em it's from the PDML.
Mark! I just started a Photoshop Elements 8 download. The wife-type has for several years just used Picasa. The last time we bought Elements was v3 and it won't install on the newer hardware. (Planned obsolescence?) So I figured we'd install the trial and give it a run for a couple weeks. Here's the sequence of events: 1. Open browser (Chrome is the default on the machine with the good monitor) 2. Go to the Elements 8 page and click the "Free Trial" linky-link. 3. Sign in and select English. 4. Read the "This page has a redirect loop" error message with instructions to allow 3rd party cookies. 5. Check the settings. 3rd party cookies are allowed. Try again. Same result. 6. Open Firefox. 7. Repeat steps 2 and 3. 8. Watch the page attempt to reload over and over and over and over and... 9. Click the "Download Help" link. Read how to fix download problems due to insufficient disk space. Specific to IE on Windows and Firefox on the Mac. 10. Open IE6. That's right. 6. Repeat steps 2 and 3. 11. Watch in amazement as IE informs me that Adobe needs to install a 3rd party activeX downloader or some such nonsense. 12. Clickety click until the download starts. Now, under normal circumstances both FF and Chrome will tell me when a web site is requesting permission to install an application. It didn't happen here. Only an endless redirect loop. Maybe it has something to do with the way I have javascript limited. I don't know. Based on past experience, and the many comments in this particular thread, I think it comes back to Adobe believing they own my computer and I have to genuflect to the big giant A if I want the honor of giving them my money. Silly me, I figured the regular Firefox or Chrome downloader would be good enough. What the hell was I thinking? I need a drink. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
