There is absolutely no correlation between the installation of Photoshop/Dreamweaver and the weird browsing behavior. Those two applications or parts thereof are not being used (run) at all when you browse through Firefox.

Cheers – Tobias

“Read omniture.secure.miisolutions.net”

Reading this url clearly slows down my access to this site, sometimes grinding to a complete stop until I reload the page.
I have a registered copy of Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver on my computer – could that somehow get involved in my newsreading habits???

1) I have 6500 colleagues all over the world and I don’t know what everybody of them is up to.
2) We are split up into multiple divisions and while everybody knows what each division is roughly doing, we certainly don’t know intricate details about each of them.
3) My personal work is completely unrelated to the subject at hand.
4) The news broke over the christmas/new years shutdown and people who knew about these areas had better things to do.
5) I wanted to investigate the problem as everybody else outside of the company would see it.

Hope that explains it – let me know if you have more questions.

Tobias

PS: Next time leave a valid email address …

I’d be happy to do a screen-sharing session with you to see if we together can manage to get it installed. Please send email to thoellri-at-adobe.com and let’s setup a quick online meeting.

There are tons of applications out there which phone-home to check whether there’s an update to the software you installed. I find this valuable at times and annoying if it is not done right. My Logitech software telling me “There’s an update” without telling me what the update is about, falls into the annoying category. Some other software showing me the release notes for all the versions between my installed version and the current version and whether those updates are security-related or not, falls into the valuable category.

I think there’s value in getting up-to-date information from the web via Adobe’s start page feature: if we find a severe security error in the application (god forbid) and we wanted to inform you about a related update, the start page could serve as the vehicle to transport this information.

I’m sorry to hear about your troubles with a past Reader update. You have my email address now, should you have problems in the future, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

@Mike: Thanks for your kind words!

I note that Dan was keen for you to correct your (unintentional) mistake.

I wonder if he has considered that if he himself had hestitated to write his first article until he had put some time and effort into researching the facts, he would hot have caused unnecessary concern and thereby wasted many people’s time.

One of the unfortunate aspects of easy access to the internet is the way in which ‘writers’ anxiously try to fill their blogs/whatever with little more than idle gossip.