Dear Quicktime

You're terrible. I hate using you, for so many reasons. I don't know why my teacher has decided to use your stupid .mov format for his video lectures, but I hate it. First of all, you're pointless. There are plenty of other video formats that I don't need to go download a special program for, there are many ways to make the video just work in the browser itself without needing any sort of additional anything.

Second of all, you're a bad program. You're missing... well, everything. You have NO features, all you do is play the video, so I don't understand why anyone would want to use you. When I click on a video in my online course, I get a new tab that's just the video, in a very empty white background, with almost no controls. There's a volume slider, cool I suppose but useless, my computer can control it's own volume. A play/pause button, of course. A bar representing video progress, which can be click on to skip to different parts in a video. Two buttons that appear to be a "next" and "previous" button of some kind that have no use in this context. And a little drop down menu, with only one option I can even click on being "about quicktime plug-in" (the couple other things are greyed out or pro only) . Speaking of that menu, if I click on it, or right click anywhere on the screen which brings up the same menu, it will NEVER go away until I click on something within it, which is quite annoying. But all of this is in one, ugly, grey bar. Now, I'm not asking for much, but how about a full-screen button? Or perhaps displaying some measure of time (current, total, and/or remainging)? Do you have any idea how annoying it is to not know where the hell in the video I am? I don't think that's asking for too much, literally every other player ever has a display of time, and most have the ability to go full-screen.

Lastly, when I reluctantly installed you, I specifically UN-CHECKED the box to automatically update quicktime and other apple products, because I don't want another program running in the background all the time just to check for updates to one stupid program that I only use for this one purpose and then will never use again. Yet you STILL installed apple auto-update on my computer, which I had go manually find and remove. It is NOT ok to install things that I specifically said I do not want on my computer.

Improve yourself so you have an actual purpose and are useful, or just go the hell away.
-SF