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People forget that when Chrome first came out, Google was paying to have it bundled alongside antivirus updates, and pretty much every other place they could sh
by com2kid 4y ago
People forget that when Chrome first came out, Google was paying to have it bundled alongside antivirus updates, and pretty much every other place they could shove it in.
At some point I gave up switching my mother's computer back to Firefox, there was no way I could keep Chrome off of her machine, it just kept getting installed.
- tjoff 4y agoAnd before that it was the google toolbar. Literal spyware.
- forgotpwd16 4y agoToolbar was made back when IE lacked a search bar and omnibar wasn't even considered of.
- tjoff 4y agoNot sure if you mean this as an excuse? Because it isn't.
- r00fus 4y agoLet’s not forget Chromeframe
- ewoodrich 4y agoChromeframe was back when IE 6/7 were still commonly used yet couldn't support "modern" HTML5/JavaScript functionality because Microsoft gave up on web standards. It was a workaround but not a particularly evil one imo.
- zymhan 4y agoWow, I actually had forgotten that.