Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Kill Silverlight

Monday, August 02, 2010

Kill Silverlight

Trouble watching videos?
Uninstalling Microsoft's piece of crap
"Silverlight" will probably clear that right up.

Thanks to JMcD for the tip. Siverlight is Microsoft's interface for watching stuff like NetFlix movies on line. Its only function appears to be keeping you from copying any portion of the content. It will reinstall when you need it again.

If you're having trouble with Firefox, but like your add-ons, etc., get the IE Tab add-on. It lets you view content using the IE interface in Firefox.

Rodger the Real King of France 8/02/2010 03:41:00 PM 13 Comments

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13 comments:

OregonGuy said...: Quit using IE and Mozilla a few months ago. Went to Opera.

Have had two major updates since, but it's a pretty good program. No latency noticed (since last update). It is a resource hog at times, although the program itself doesn't take up all that much space. But name any app from MS that isn't a resource hog.
.; 8/2/10, 3:59 PM
An ignorant dickweed said...: Trying to get a LINUX, microsoft, mac argument going again?

Now I know why I wasn't having problems, it is a microsoft problem.; 8/2/10, 3:59 PM
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...: I fixed my video problem a while back. Now I have a problem with getting the rollover thingy to work like on the pic you used for this posting.; 8/2/10, 4:25 PM
Anonymous said...: Yep , Rollover is broke Boss ! smibsid; 8/2/10, 4:33 PM
SFAOV Sgsaur said...: Where can I hire that contactor in the picture? I've got some jobs she could do...; 8/2/10, 5:23 PM
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...: I wonder how long she would have to wait around for work if she was mixed in with a bunch of beaners in front of Home Depot.; 8/2/10, 6:35 PM
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...: According to her smock, I think her specialty is demolition :D; 8/2/10, 6:37 PM
MoFiZiX Gr4FiX said...: BTW, FYI, her name is interweb identity is Pattycake ...yes, I Gurgled it :P; 8/2/10, 6:51 PM
Anonymous said...: Looks like her Silverlight was recently uninstalled.

olds-mo; 8/2/10, 6:52 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: From memory, the rollover look like this:

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|; 8/2/10, 10:18 PM
CarlS said...: Funny, I use only IE. In all the lab tests I've performed, it is the most secure browser. Just last week I had to remove Firefox due to problems it caused, and given the security warnings published within the last 2 days, I do not intend to reinstall it anytime soon. However, the issue here is Silverlight. I have no issues, none, watching movies, or creating them, or downloading them from YouTube or where ever. I would suspect that the actual issue is with BHO's or Plugins or other browser add-ins on the problem machines. It helps, I suspect, that I build and load software myself, and know what internet sites to say no to, what 3rd-party tools to not use, and I also keep my MS Updates current. Of course, I'm just a computer and network security engineer; what do I know?; 8/3/10, 12:39 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Thanks CarlS - We love having computer geeks make house calls. I have no doubt that you're correct, but for us live-a-days, when something like this happens, we just want a fix without spending 5 hours reading FAQS, uninstalling stuff one at a time, etc. In this instance getting rid of Silverlight worked, and I don't miss having it (so far). Like MoSup said when I was teaching her to drive, "Don't tell me about pistons; show me where the key goes."; 8/3/10, 7:41 AM
Anonymous said...: Ask the time and they tell you how to build a clock.
Tim; 8/3/10, 12:18 PM

Monday, August 02, 2010

Kill Silverlight

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