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Re:Firefox 4 RC now available by ootachi on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @07:34PM (#2307363)
There is work to give the user more control over this that unfortunately didn't make it into Firefox 4 [1], but ultimately it's a battle that can't be won; on the desktop, apps can modify other apps. I suspect that this will happen to Chrome too.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596343

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Re:Firefox 4 RC now available by digdug on Thursday March 10, 2011 @06:34PM (#2311277)
Heck, since Chrome has to put itself into the users AppData folder in order to do silent updates, is there anything preventing malware from just screwing with the Chrome libraries themselves?
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