It was concluded, that the "creepy" way of installing was done via ClickOnce. I didn't do anything that I know of to enable ClickOnce, so however it got enabled ... It was a default side effect of something else I did at some point. I don't know what or how.
If you don't have ClickOnce enabled, good for you. ;-) I haven't tried very hard to disable it, but I don't know how it ever got enabled in the first place ... So ... On 12/18/09 3:01 PM, "C.M. Connelly" <c...@math.hmc.edu> wrote: > > When I tried to install Chrome today (from www.google.com/chrome/ > in Firefox on Windows XP), it > > 1. Gave me a button to click to download the installer; > > 2. Took me to a page with a EULA to agree to, and a ``Download > and Install'' button; > > 3. Took me to another page with installation instructions while > Firefox popped up a dialog saying "You have chosen to open > ChromeSetup.exe" with a button to save the file. The > instructions tell you to open the download window in Firefox > (Tools->Downloads), then double-click the installer there to > start it. > > That's the behavior I would expect to see (in Firefox). Maybe > Google has changed things? Or maybe your preferences are > different than mine? I don't really use this machine (it's there > in case I really have to use Windows for something), and it looks > like I haven't really done much of anything to the preferences. > > Claire > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > Claire Connelly c...@math.hmc.edu > Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754 > Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
