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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by kbenson on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:47PM (#8881701)
I think you are still missing the complete context of the original comment. Once a browser is set as default, for a significant portion of people that won't change unless they are somehow prompted or forced to change it again at a later date. To many people, the browser is just another part of the OS that allows viewing webpages, and they just call it "The internet".
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by frogpelt on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @02:15PM (#8881876)
It seems if they were that clueless, they would have had many more opportunities to change default browsers without realizing it.
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by kbenson on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @03:07PM (#8882214)
What other browsers auto-install from other software and automatically change your default?
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by jpablo on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @04:03PM (#8882568)
Chrome?
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by kbenson on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @05:05PM (#8882943)
From what? It automatically sets itself as default?
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by JohnTHaller on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @08:26PM (#8883711)
Yup. Chrome is offered as opt-out bundleware with quite a few Windows apps and Google pays the publishers for this. This is how quite a few regular users switched to Chrome. Even just updating Java in Windows it'll try and sneak a copy of Chrome in with the update.
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Re:What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps by basch on Sunday January 18, 2015 @11:43AM (#8907914)
lets be honest. flash or java plus the ask toolbar have been installed by now, and managed to install chrome.

chrome has a way of installing itself.

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