Yes! BAD DEFAULT!! Why should I have to ask not to install/upgrade something I don't have? - Ted MacNEIL [email protected] Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
-----Original Message----- From: Graham Hobbs <[email protected]> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:55:33 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Ot: GOOGLE Chrome Southern Ontario too but automatic updates is off, but missed the teeny tiny little checkbox not to install chrome. Am I wrong, is google becoming a nasty player? Graham Hobbs ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted MacNEIL" <[email protected]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 7:41 PM Subject: Re: Ot: GOOGLE Chrome > Shouldn't have to go to the trouble of backing out their 'help'! > If I'd wanted CHROME, I'd have kept it years ago! > - > Ted MacNEIL > [email protected] > Twitter: @TedMacNEIL > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Ford <[email protected]> > Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:37:30 > To: <[email protected]> > Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Ot: GOOGLE Chrome > > Ted, > > I just got burnt on Windows 7 x 64 bit, using Outlook 2007. I couldn't > click on URLs and pull up my IE9 browser. I downloaded the fix from > Microsoft. Applied it. Outlook worked fine, it wrecked IE9. Thank got is > took a backup point prior all I had to do s restore, but still have my > Outlook issue. I have seem several products install Chrome as part of > them ... > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > > Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll > understand. - Chinese Proverb > > > On Nov 18, 2012, at 7:25 PM, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I installed an upgrade of Flash Player, yesterday, unattended. >> I now have GOOGLE CHROME instead of FireFox. >> >> I know this is off-topic to the lists I've cross-posted to but I think >> the warning is appropriate, for those who care. >> >> I, personally, don't like CHROME. >> And, I don't know (for sure) that this is what did it. >> But, it's the only update I've done in months, except for Patch >> Tuesday(s). >> >> A word to the wise is efficient. >> >> PS: this was done in Canada (Southern Ontario), if that's relevant. >> >> - >> Ted MacNEIL >> [email protected] >> Twitter: @TedMacNEIL >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
