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Darn. From the title I thought Google was going to stop having Chrome hitch a ride with 3/4 of the installer downloads in existence. That's the worst thing about Chrome - how vigilant one has to be to avoid accidentally installing it!

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I remember that I played SimCity Social on Facebook on Chrome, but it was so slower in about 2012 I visited my cousin's apartment. The Internet explorer is so faster than Firefox or chrome. I go to library, and I tested it and it was so faster there. I don't like Chrome at all, because of performance is slow.

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Darn. From the title I thought Google was going to stop having Chrome hitch a ride with 3/4 of the installer downloads in existence.

I've been out of the loop when it comes to installing things under Windows, but so far I haven't seen this? Is it really that common?
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I've been out of the loop when it comes to installing things under Windows, but so far I haven't seen this? Is it really that common?

 

Google Toolbar and Google Chrome is bundled with Adobe Flash Player.

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Google Toolbar and Google Chrome is bundled with Adobe Flash Player.

Interesting. I've been back on Windows for 2 weeks, installed flash last week and I could have sworn the only thing I needed to uncheck was the installation of McAffee...Then again, I'm vigilant for the "opt-out" boxes, not necessarily what I'm opting out of. :laugh:
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Google Toolbar and Google Chrome is bundled with Adobe Flash Player.

 

 

Interesting. I've been back on Windows for 2 weeks, installed flash last week and I could have sworn the only thing I needed to uncheck was the installation of McAffee...Then again, I'm vigilant for the "opt-out" boxes, not necessarily what I'm opting out of. :laugh:

you are correct. chrome hasn't been bundled with flash for a good half a year at least now. only McAfee is now

 

I actually haven't seen any installer that bundles chrome in awhile. the last i personally remember I think is Foxit Reader

 

 

on topic. this is some good news if it actually turns out to be true

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So Google are going to fix the memory leak issues in Chrome. Now Mozilla should follow suit and fix the memory leaks in their codebase.

 

The one other thing Google needs to addres about Chrome is the extreme lack of customisation.

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About time. My M8 crawls since lollipop update to chrome. before that, it was seamless and blazing fast. Now it lags a lot.

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It's even worse when you actually install it. It pins itself to your taskbar, start menu, and desktop. Then asks 3 times to be your default browser.

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you are correct. chrome hasn't been bundled with flash for a good half a year at least now. only McAfee is now

 

I actually haven't seen any installer that bundles chrome in awhile. the last i personally remember I think is Foxit Reader

 

 

on topic. this is some good news if it actually turns out to be true

it depends on the browser and OS being used to download Flash.

 

eg.

Internet Explorer in Windows 7, it will ask to bundle Google Chrome and Toolbar

Firefox on Windows will ask to bundle McAfee

Opera on Windows will ask to bundle Google Chrome

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I've not had memory leaks from Chrome thus far on Android but it's fair to say it's not as good as it is on Windows.

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I thought it was the  lack of "Save As" and "Open" dialogue....

It has Save As and Open dialog boxes.

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So Google are going to fix the memory leak issues in Chrome. Now Mozilla should follow suit and fix the memory leaks in their codebase.

 

The one other thing Google needs to addres about Chrome is the extreme lack of customisation.

Mozilla fixed the majority of the memory issues years ago, but like Chrome they're not leaks, it's either inefficient use of memory, or things just requiring a lot of RAM.

A memory leak means the app allocates memory but loses track of it, so can't ever release it back to the OS, allocating lots of memory and using it is the exact opposite of a leak.

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I hate chrome - it constantly points me to porn sites !  My fiance wonders why certain websites pop up, and why previous search results always say something like " midgets, sheep, and vaseline" - but I just tell her - that chrome is really buggy and that is a major complaint a lot of users have ...   :whistle:

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No, in Chrome there are leaks. I've tested. I run a lot of tabs generally.. But even if I close ALL but one,  tab, a blank empty tab, the "main" Chrome process will still sit there sucking up over a gig of RAM. It starts small, then gets bigger and bigger as the days go on.

 

Thankfully I'm on the Dev build, so I need to reboot it weekly to install the update.. times when I've forgot, or delayed installing the update, I've hit the memory error crash, when Chrome reaches the max memory and blows up :/ God I hope they fix it.

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I've been out of the loop when it comes to installing things under Windows, but so far I haven't seen this? Is it really that common?

 

 

Google Toolbar and Google Chrome is bundled with Adobe Flash Player.

 

Also SuperAntiSpyware.

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It has Save As and Open dialog boxes.

:o Is it possible to enable them when downloading? I hate chrome download manager because it does not ask you where you want to save your files or if you just want to "open" them.

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I hate chrome - it constantly points me to porn sites !  My fiance wonders why certain websites pop up, and why previous search results always say something like " midgets, sheep, and vaseline" - but I just tell her - that chrome is really buggy and that is a major complaint a lot of users have ...   :whistle:

I have no doubts that those are genuine search results

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Whats with all the chrome hate? It wipes the floor with IE and Firefox... The last IE I used as my go-to browser was ie6.. otherwise IE is used to download chrome on new installs.

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