Actually the point is about security, but I understand what you are saying.
And that's how all programs behaved *before Vista*, and *against Microsoft's best practices* for installing programs. The whole point is that you can only install programs for all users if you are an administrator of the computer. In fact, if security policies are enforced, this would apply for XP as well. It is also Microsoft's best practices that only users of sufficient authority can install programs into "Program Files" for all users, and that per-user configuration and user-modifiable program options should *not* be stored in under Program Files. And of course it's because normal users should *not* have write access to Program Files to be able to do so. (Any programs that continue to do so are just propagating bad design). Microsoft has just started to much more strictly enforce the user permissions in Vista (which is where all the UAC prompts and and privilege escalations come in). In Vista, "all programs" do not automatically install for all users unless the installing user has sufficient authority. The only reason that all user installations happen so easily in XP and prior is that even up to XP, almost all users are created as administrators which means they do have authority to install for all users into Program Files. But even for many workplace/security enhanced environments where security policies are enforced, all user installations on XP are not possible nor does it work that way "for all programs". On May 27, 6:37 pm, Meok <[email protected]> wrote: > > The opposite situation is where a regular user is downloading and > > installing Chrome, and such a user "should" not have permission to > > install the program for all users of the computer, and it would be > > expected in such cases that Chrome is only available to that one user > > to did the install. This is further enforced by Vista and onwards > > with UAC protections, etc, and a special system install would be > > required to install for all users. > > I get your point about Privacy but to be honest, that's how ALL > programs behave. I don't use Vista too often so you'd have to tell me > if this has changed, but when you install Firefox, Safari, Netscape, > Opera, WordPerfect, MS Office, Photoshop or many other programs I can > think of, shortcuts are made in the "All Users" section, so the other > users notice that a new program is installed. It doesn't set the > program as the default or copy over any settings, it;s just a > shortcut, which would prompt the user to enter their own settings on > first launch. everything does this, so I never viewed it as a privacy > issue. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
