{"id":14308,"date":"2009-03-23T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T20:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14308"},"modified":"2009-03-23T14:12:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T20:12:17","slug":"the-adobe-store-continues-to-annoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/the-adobe-store-continues-to-annoy.html","title":{"rendered":"The Adobe store continues to annoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Purchasing things online via the Adobe store continues to be an annoying struggle each time I do it. The place is heavily Flash-fied, meaning not only can I not use Roboform to populate data like credit card numbers and passwords, but the fields don’t even allow pasting into them. The download process is propritary and requires a special ActiveX control be installed (so I have to run it out of IE, rather than Firefox). The navigation has gotten slightly better, but I still feel like I’m a prisoner on my own computer, even as they continue to try and get me to purchase optional add-ons that I don’t want.<\/p>\n

I only use one Adobe program, PhotoShop Elements. It’s almost — not quite, but almost — enough to make me think I shouldn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Purchasing things online via the Adobe store continues to be an annoying struggle each time I do it. The place is heavily Flash-fied, meaning not only can I not use Roboform to populate data like credit card numbers and passwords, but the fields don’t even allow pasting into them. The download process is propritary and … Continue reading “The Adobe store continues to annoy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6385,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/adobe_and_firef.html","url_meta":{"origin":14308,"position":0},"title":"Adobe and Firefox","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Sep-04 9:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"The glitch between Adobe Reader 6.0 and Firefox is pretty well-known. 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