Today I tried to install the Silverlight plug-in. Again. I don’t know why but I found myself on the Microsoft homepage where a little pop-up box said “Enhance your experience on Microsoft.com with Microsoft Silverlight”.
So far so good. Somewhere in the back of my head something was going on about not going trough the trouble and that I had tried it before. But that was a while ago so I decided to give it another try.
I click the “Click to install” button which is essentially a download button but I can live with that and Firefox starts downloading the .dmg file. I mount the file and open it up. No installer or anything just one file called “Silverlight_EULA.pkg”. I have no idea what EULA means but it says Silverlight so I should be save. I double-click and the install dialog comes up.
I get a friendly message in 10 pt. Times New Roman: “The Setup program will install Microsoft Silverlight on your computer. You will be guided through the steps to install this browser plug-in.”. Very well, let’s get going. I click continue.
The Software License Agreement comes up. Now that’s weird. Because didn’t I already agree to that when I clicked on the “Click to install” button on Microsoft.com? Yes I did.
Oh well, I agreed to them one time. Why not again. I go on with the installation, select the target hard disk and it starts installing. Only took about 20 seconds to install. That’s good. The message comes up “The software was successfully installed” and I’m prompted to restart my browser.
I restart Firefox and I return to the Microsoft homepage. No change, just the static images that where there before. After a few seconds I get a pop-up box asking me If I want to install Silverlight.
Silverlight? No thanks.
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Ent
June 30th, 2008 10:46 am
just fyi: EULA stands for the license agreement which you agree to upon installing.
Ent
June 30th, 2008 10:58 am
tried the install, worked for me without a problem. firefox 2.0.0.14
Rick
June 30th, 2008 2:05 pm
Atleast you got it to install:P Mine says it cant install because there is nothing to install. How about that… :P
Adam
August 21st, 2008 9:51 am
To be specific, it stands for End User License Agreement.