ravi wrote:
Sure, your suggestion is safer, though not applicable AFAIK to non-Windows users (Spybot S&D is a Windows tool, yes?). I would be surprised though that the developers at Google (especially since I know a bunch of them ;-)) would have coded themselves into a corner by incorrectly relying on the presence of cookies... surely the toolbar does not lose functionality (or fail completely in updating itself) because of the missing cookies?
Dunno... I don't habla database-ese. I could put the cookie on my desktop and wait a month or two, then check for the update, and the revision date.... but that's too much like work. My guess is that it shows which revision is installed, and any potential conflicts, so the installer doesn't need to work from scratch. Oh, and there's no tool like Spybot S&D for Macs? You need to go through the cookies MANUALLY? (Oh Lord God Apple, I BESEECH THEE! Please help me to know the difference between that NYT _utz cookie and the _utb cookie.) I guess Apple has decimated the base of developers who would care to write software for their OS (which incidentally isn't THEIR OS, they just modified it enough to prevent the FreeeBSD developers from working with it, like Lindows will make linux a MicroSoft product. I don't want a computer that just works, I want a FULL range of functionality, development-ability, and scaleability. Windows, Linux,Unix... there are no other choices now. In the long run, Apple's marketing strategy (niche market), and arrogance towards software developers interested in working on software for Apple's market, will relegate them to the dustbin of computer history. It just took longer than Osborne and KayPro. Leigh http://leighm.net/
