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If you try to install Flash on Windows, by default Chrome gets installed too (and probably prompts you to make it default). It doesn't even ask you at install t

by rythie 14y ago

If you try to install Flash on Windows, by default Chrome gets installed too (and probably prompts you to make it default). It doesn't even ask you at install time, it's a default checked checkbox on the webpage you download from - very easy to miss.

caw 14y ago
Is this a particular geo thing? In the US, I'm getting a McAfee add-on to de-select prior to download.
- lambda_cube 14y ago
  I don't think it's regional. I'm in Sweden and if I visit the Flash install page with IE I get Chrome as pre-selected and if I visit with Firefox I get the McAfee add-on. (And when I'm using Linux, as usual, there are no extra applications installed.)
  - caw 14y ago
    That's a good catch. The browser thing seems logical. I tried all the permutations I could: Chrome - McAfee IE9 - Chrome & Google Toolbar Firefox - McAfee
- kattuviriyan 14y ago
  Probably the stub found that you already have Chrome installed.
  - Achshar 14y ago
    A webpage finding out what software I have installed is all kinds of bad, esp if there is no flash involved since its the page to download flash.
    - Filligree 14y ago
      Well, it can certainly find out what browser you're using.
- rythie 14y ago
  I'm in the UK and it did this - fresh install of Windows 7 (in a VM)
- walid 14y ago
  It's the same in Lebanon.
cooldeal 14y ago
I think both Flash and Java updates(99% of PCs have them) install Chrome by default.