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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by Jaepa on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:24PM (#14807105)
If I remember, wasn't the version installed by Avast a custom chromium fork until relatively recently? Then there was some security issue, and google basically stop the AV's to knock it off? I think Comodo also did something like this too, though theirs was more of a mess, because Comodo.

EDIT: Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11057532

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Re:Firefox marketshare revisited by JohnTHaller on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @03:34PM (#14807211)
Sometimes. The screenshot I showed was when Avast specifically offered me Chrome. Not the Comodo Chrome knockoff. Avast offers up different things at different times depending on who is paying what. Chrome has been bundleware with a ton of software.
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