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If you try to install Flash on Windows, by default Chrome gets installed too (and probably prompts you to make it default). It doesn't even ask you at install time, it's a default checked checkbox on the webpage you download from - very easy to miss.


Is this a particular geo thing? In the US, I'm getting a McAfee add-on to de-select prior to download.


I don't think it's regional. I'm in Sweden and if I visit the Flash install page with IE I get Chrome as pre-selected and if I visit with Firefox I get the McAfee add-on. (And when I'm using Linux, as usual, there are no extra applications installed.)


That's a good catch. The browser thing seems logical. I tried all the permutations I could:

Chrome - McAfee

IE9 - Chrome & Google Toolbar

Firefox - McAfee


Probably the stub found that you already have Chrome installed.


A webpage finding out what software I have installed is all kinds of bad, esp if there is no flash involved since its the page to download flash.


Well, it can certainly find out what browser you're using.


I'm in the UK and it did this - fresh install of Windows 7 (in a VM)


It's the same in Lebanon.


I think both Flash and Java updates(99% of PCs have them) install Chrome by default.




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