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> because google advertised it For a time, chrome was bundled along side JRE updates. I went over to my mother's multiple times and saw that Chrome had, yet ag
by com2kid 6y ago
> because google advertised it
For a time, chrome was bundled along side JRE updates. I went over to my mother's multiple times and saw that Chrome had, yet again, replaced Firefox.
Not to mention the constant advertising/banners to switch to Chrome on all of Google's web properties.
- cpeterso 6y agoChrome was also bundled with Adobe's Flash installer, which is ironic because Chrome bundles its own Flash plugin. So a Firefox user wanting Flash would download Adobe's Flash installer and (if they didn't watch the installer's default settings carefully) would be switched to Chrome. If a Firefox user wanted to switch to Chrome, they would have downloaded Google's Chrome installer, not Adobe's Flash installer. Adobe had no incentive to change this relationship because they got paid by Google twice: for bundling Chrome in Flash and bundling Flash in Chrome.