A couple of months ago, I updated Google Earth - love playing around on it, and seeing what my destination looks like. However, it apparently comes with Google Chrome when you download it, and if you're not careful, it gets installed as well. I'm an avid downloader, and always look for those little check-boxes in advanced settings, so I don't get that little bonus that you didn't want. For some odd reason, no mention of Chrome was made in the version of the GE installer that I downloaded. So... after the installer went through the hoops of collecting all the files it needed, up pops a Chrome window, directing itself to to the internet... wait... WTF?!?! I DON"T HAVE CHROME!!!! I immediately canceled the install and removed Chrome from Add/Remove Programs - little did I know that my problems had just begun. From that point forward, just about every app I have, that opens a browser window, in the process of doing what it's supposed to do (like trillian, yahoo messenger, SVN, etc...) - stopped working. They would tell me when I had mail, but would NOT open a window, when I wanted to read my mail. Well, I did some digging, and came up with this - the first thing Chrome does when it installs, is set itself to be the default for everything related to the world wide web, even before, you are given the option to say NO - I never made it that far, as the browser was still loading, when I cancelled the install.
The key it sets looks like this;
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -- "%1"
and it's everywhere... see images (if image is cutoff, click to view full-size).
Even after going through Add/Remove Programs/Set Access and Defaults - these settings remain. So now I have to manually go through and change everyone of them, back to IE or Firefox, depending on what I prefer. Thanks Google - for making sure my opinion of your product does not change - Chrome Sucks, and thanks again for reminding me.
(Note: Did you notice in the first image, that it says Firefox, but the default app is still Chrome? Yeah, king of the search engines, but you can't clean up your own mess - good job!)
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