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Windows 10

Posted: 27 Jul 2015 7:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
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Will Family Tree Maker software work with Windows 10?

Re: Windows 10

Posted: 27 Jul 2015 10:23PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 27 Jul 2015 10:28PM GMT
I guess we'll only know after the first guinea pigs have tried it. I would imagine FTM itself should have been testing already.

I am already in line. I hope there will be some positive reactions posted here before I actually get the download. I understand that even if you get the download, you can choose to wait to install it.

I understand it is only free for one year and that this is last version number for Windows. After this it will be updated in sections. So, that means everyone will need to get it eventually, so might as well get it while it is free.

My biggest hope is that this operating system, or the new browser, will eliminate the Flash crashes I have had so much trouble with. Chrome was crashing daily with Shockwave Flash crashes until I couldn't stand it anymore and went to Firefox. But Firefox crashes weekly with with either an Adobe Flash crash or a Shockwave Flash crash.

Re: Windows 10

Posted: 27 Jul 2015 11:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
I'm in line, too, and I sure don't want to create any more problems with FTM than I have had since installing the 2014 version.

I have the same issues with crashes and it drives me crazy. I am using Firefox and experience crashes constantly.

We will have to wait and see ... hope we are lucky!! Thanks for the info.

Re: Windows 10

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 2:32AM GMT
Classification: Query
It is my understanding the problem with Adobe flash or Shockwave is adobe, not the operating system or the browser.

If I remember there was some activity some months ago at Mozilla, to develop an alternative to Adobe. Don't remember where I read it so don't ask for refferences

Re: Windows 10

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 3:46AM GMT
Classification: Query
Last week both Mozilla and Google stopped automatically allowing Adobe Flash because of the gaping security holes in the product that had been there for about a year IIRC. This prompted Adobe to shift gears (I'm being polite here) and come up with a fix that satisfied Mozilla at least for now.

I imagine Adobe was blasted by their users. Mozilla and Google informed everyone about it, publicly.

Flash gives me fits ... I would love to get rid of it entirely.

Re: Windows 10

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 6:21AM GMT
Classification: Query
Ditto!

Re: Windows 10

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 12:19PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 28 Jul 2015 12:22PM GMT
If Adobe Flash/Shockwave is giving you fits, in FIrefox change it to Never Activate, or Ask to Activate.

I have done this and found very few URL's where Adobe is required. Where you find a URL requiring Adobe, it is quite easy in Firefox to reactivate it and reload.

I have also found that if MS Silverlight is Activated there are even less UR's requiring Adobe

Re: Windows 10

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 2:18PM GMT
Classification: Query
For Firefox users you can remove add-ons by looking here:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-or-remove-add-o...

Flash is harder to remove from Current versions of ie, but can be disabled as well. Flash is noted for its ability to deliver viruses, at work I've disabled all website access where Flash is used.

Re: Windows 10

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 3:25PM GMT
Classification: Query
I tried that but there are just too many places where it is used. No doubt we aren't looking at the same pages.

Re: Windows 10

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 6:31PM GMT
Classification: Query
Tulrose,

Probably not. But I've turned it off at home as well via my firewall rather than at the browser level. Then I can "White List" the sites that I still want to let thru. However I do keep this to a VERY short list, because anyone can get a virus at any time!!
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