On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 03:22 +0100, "Luka Knezevic-Strika" <[email protected]> wrote: > chrome is by far the most stable and least resource hungry browser, if > that is a little redeeming.
The install also added a Chrome shortcut to my Quick Launch toolbar - again without asking. If this Wikipedia article is to be believed, Chrome is rapidly gaining on both Firefox and IE in web usage share. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers Perhaps, Google's download/install methods have something to do with it. I think I'll stick with Firefox. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:12 AM, P. J. Alling > <[email protected]> wrote: > > When you're motto is "Don't be evil." there's probably a reason, which is > > well you're really pretty evil... > > > > On 3/13/2011 9:01 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > >> > >> In the 'Japan' thread, Rob mentioned a method of copying Lat/Long > >> coordinates from Google Earth to the Windows clipboard. As the > >> suggested method didn't work in the version of Google Earth I was > >> running, I decided to upgrade. > >> > >> Not only did the upgrade also include the Chrome browser (even though I > >> didn't want it and wasn't given the option to not install it), the > >> installation made Chrome my default browser without asking. > >> > >> Not happy Google! > >> > >> > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> Brian > >> > >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >> Brian Walters > >> Western Sydney Australia > >> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
