Comment #3 on issue 14023 by [email protected]: Help users get a new default browser on uninstall http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=14023
From the comments on the e-mail thread it is clear that people think windows has a concept of a 'default' browser. This is not true. There are a bunch of handlers and every browser is free to take what they want. Furthermore, there are indirections and different ways these handlers can be configured. Vista comes close to a concept of a 'browser', however the COM interface has no 'undo'. Not that I think it would be robust. The fact that nobody does it is not because 'everybody sucks', it is because it very hard and heuristics are easy to break. Other edge cases. You set chrome to be your default and save the keys you modified. Meanwhile your other two browsers get automatically updated and along they use a different scheme of handlers. Now the user uninstalls chrome and we restore the values that do not make sense. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
