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1. Comment - Mozilla CEO: Apple Safari update is 'just wrong'

   (Mar 24, 2008 - 7:37 PM)

   PC TOOL ... Please do an install of Quicktime so that you can tell the World where people are given the option for it NOT to open mp3 files by default. It does this when people are trying to download music files from sites other than iTunes. Rather than the file being downloaded, it is streamed into Quicktime and then is lost to the person who only wants to download the file.
   
   I have a default MP3 player that does not behave this way, yet if I install Quicktime, I have no choice and it overrides my default to install itself as default.
   
   This is a far more serious and sinister issue than the Safari install. Are you going to say that Apple is "brilliant" for doing this also?
   
   It is clearly intentional and designed to injure music sites competing with Apple.
   
   Quicktime is MALWARE.

2. Comment - Mozilla CEO: Apple Safari update is 'just wrong'

   (Mar 24, 2008 - 3:06 PM)

   Why don't we bring Apple's Quicktime into this discussion also? This MALWARE installs itself in such a way that people are prevented from downloading mp3's from other music sites. Instead of downloading, the files immediately open in Quicktime (I am sure there are no problems downloading from iTunes). While its true there are ways to circumvent this problem, it simply should not happen. Just another way for Apple to try and assert a monopoly over music downloads, with many users simply giving up trying to download music from other sites.