All may know these days Freewares are bundled with Toolbars which causing problems to users and are very difficult to uninstall ,popular freewares like Ccleaner and Foxit Reader are bundled with Toolbars those are integrated into Firefox browser.
Today I wanted to install updated Ccleaner which frees system resources by removing temporary files and Browser cache .If you are a user who install a program blindly by clicking next, next see what happens. Yahoo Toolbar installed in Firefox with Ccelaner As I already using Google Toolbar for Firefox ,does I really need this nasty browser toolbars stuff. Uninstalling Yahoo Toolbar from Firefox . Since this Yahoo Toolbar is installed as add-on in Firefox ,to uninstall this 1.Open Firefox browser 2.Tools>add-ons>select Yahoo Toolbar and click uninstall. 3.restart Firefox to uninstall Yahoo toolbar. How can this can be avoided to not to happen again If you are installing Freewares or any software please observe are there any toolbars bundled with them ,This can be avoided if you had clearly observed Ccleaner while installing .You can uncheck yahoo toolbar option and hence avoiding crappy yahoo toolbar in your Firefox browser. As Adobe Reader has more vulnerabilities and more resource hog ,today I downloaded Foxit Reader from their website and you may choose default setting install or custom install while installing Foxit Reader doesn’t matter Foxit toolbar installs anyway with Foxit Reader. Foxit reader forcing user to install Foxit toolbar Here ccleaner is quite better though it bundles with Yahoo toolbar ,we can select or uncheck install of yahoo toolbar, what Foxit reader does it forces user to install Foxit toolbar along with Foxit reader.Also asks to make as Asks.com as default search engine though you can uncheck this ,you can’t avoid installing Foxit toolbar.If you disagree Foxit reader won’t install in your computer. Uninstalling Foxit Toolbar from Firefox: 1.Open Firefox browser . 2.Select Tools>add-ons>select Foxit reader Toolbar>click uninstall to remove Foxit toolbar from Firefox.
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No, Steve is right. The latest version WILL install the reader if you refuse the Toolbar. A reminder that you won't get the 'extras' is shown in red, but carry on anyway…
I just installed FoxIt, chose custom install, did not check anything for any toolbar, and yet it appeared in Firefox, wasting screen space (this is on a netbook). Looking around the net, it appears some versions of FoxIt allow one to decline, and some don't. The current one (9/09) doesn't mention it in the custom install, and so blithely installs it for everyone.
An amendment to the above remove instructions: in the Firefox view menu, it's called the FoxIt toolbar, but in the tools menu it's called the Ask toolbar. I went ahead and uninstalled FoxIt, because if they're slimy enough to do this, who knows what else their software may be doing.
@Jeff Martens
That's the sad in case of latest foxit readers ,installs ask toolbar with foxit reader. But let me tell you foxit reader is the best free PDF reader availble on internet. They add teh toobars to get revenue as it is a freeware.
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Foxit is a yet another example of a nice product that has been effectively ruined by marketing meddling. They could have been satisfied with the exposure gained from the free reader in order to gain sales of the paid products, but they've chosen to ruin it. I will return to Acrobat Reader, which is also free and doesn't install a bunch of stupid toolbars everywhere. Thanks for the blog!
I just installed the latest Foxit PDF reader, and no toolbar was installed. When the screen comes up that talkes about the toolbar, ask.com etc I simply unchecked all boxes. Including the one that says "I accept the license terms". Even if it is not obvious, these license terms are for the toolbar only.
Why are these companies so presumptuous? They think I want ask.com or yahoo toolbars? NO I DONT. I know how to use the net! Companies that practice this are slapping me in the face. I am so sick and tired of it. Is it really worth a couple of pennies per install to alienate me? Then again, I suppose there are enough sheep out there to make it worthwhile.
Love Foxit PDF reader. I had so much trouble with the crappy Adobe Reader no matter what version I downloaded.
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