{"id":113,"date":"2010-10-20T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T14:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:30:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T20:30:42","slug":"qa-why-do-i-have-to-quit-my-web-browser-when-i-install-officemac-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/qa-why-do-i-have-to-quit-my-web-browser-when-i-install-officemac-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A: why do I have to quit my web browser when I install Office:Mac 2011?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"mailto:nadyne@gmail.com\">email<\/a>, I got this question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I installed Office 2011 last night. \u00a0I had Safari and Firefox open, but was forced to quit them during the Office install. \u00a0Why?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During the installation of Office:Mac, we install fonts. \u00a0Web browsers, since they&#8217;re heavily reliant on fonts, don&#8217;t particularly like it when you change fonts out from under them while they&#8217;re running. \u00a0If you install a font that the browser is using, then it&#8217;s likely to not display that font properly until you restart your browser. \u00a0To avoid this kind of issue, we simply ask you to close down your browser for a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, Jim asked this in the comments thread in my post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/12\/officemac-2008-12-2-7-and-officemac-2004-11-6-1-updates-available-now\/\">latest Office 2008 and 2004 updates<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why does the update to Office insist that I quit Safari????<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our updater uses some of the same code as our installer, and that&#8217;s one of the pieces we reuse. \u00a0We reuse that particular piece of code because an update could include font updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via email, I got this question: I installed Office 2011 last night. \u00a0I had Safari and Firefox open, but was forced to quit them during the Office install. \u00a0Why? During the installation of Office:Mac, we install fonts. \u00a0Web browsers, since they&#8217;re heavily reliant on fonts, don&#8217;t particularly like it when you change fonts out from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/qa-why-do-i-have-to-quit-my-web-browser-when-i-install-officemac-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q&#038;A: why do I have to quit my web browser when I install Office:Mac 2011?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office2011","category-qanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}