On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:41 -0700, "John Celio" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've never known Google to try to force any product or service on anyone > (except the stuff that happened when they introduced Buzz to Gmail), so > I have a hard time believing there wasn't an option somewhere to not > install Chrome when installing Google Earth. I think they learned their > lesson with Buzz. Matter of fact, I think I'll install Earth on this > machine and see what happens. I won't eat my hat if I'm wrong, though. > ;) >
Well, this is embarrassing. It's egg on face time downunder.... I knew I wasn't offered the option to not include Chrome yesterday so I thought I'd check again to see whether I was imaging things. Well, it looks as if I was, because this page offers the option of unchecking a box that includes the Chrome part of the download and another to make Chrome the default browser: http://www.google.com/earth/download/ge/agree.html It looks as if I blindly accepted the user agreement without unchecking those boxes. My apologies to Google..... but I still think it should be opt in rather than opt out :-(> Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: OT - Google is no longer my friend > From: "Bob W" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, March 14, 2011 1:40 am > To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> > > > > > 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. > > I use Chrome, it's pretty good. But I chose to use it, I didn't have it > forced on me by Google. They are really being stupid by forcing it on > people. > > B -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- 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.
