I just installed SMPlayer 14.3 on Win7 and everytime I start SMPlayer "First Steps" will be opened in my browser. I also noticed that SMPlayer won't remember any changes that I make to the settings.
I even uninstalled 14.3 an reinstalled 0.8.6 but it shows the same "not saving the settings"-behaviour - never noticed that before.
And everytime I start 0.8.6 I get bugged about the new version.
So using SMPlayer is quite painful at the moment.
Extra info: I use Win7 with a limited user account and entered the admin credentials for installation.