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> If you visited Google on Firefox or IE you would get a banner suggesting you to try Chrome.

Let’s not understate this, as I remember it clearly.

As a Firefox user, using any Google-product on the web, I was constantly badgered to “upgrade” my browser.

That’s right: Google lied and told Firefox-users that they were downloading upgrades to their Firefox installations.

Completely inexcusable, fraudulent behaviour. Combined with the bu sling and drive-by-installers Google paid for, me and lots of my technical friends still consider Chrome genuine malware for this reason.



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