Your points are well taken and correct. Point #1 is especially true, but they all must be balanced against the opposite situation where point #1 may need to be viewed as an exception.
The opposite situation is where a regular user is downloading and installing Chrome, and such a user "should" not have permission to install the program for all users of the computer, and it would be expected in such cases that Chrome is only available to that one user to did the install. This is further enforced by Vista and onwards with UAC protections, etc, and a special system install would be required to install for all users. That's why point #1 can be viewed as an exception; it is desired for techs to do all user installs, but it is an exception outside of what "normal" users would do. All that said, Chrome already does support system level/universal installs. I don't know the full details about that, but you can find many fixed bugs regarding this in the Chromium bug tracker. As well, it's fairly widespread news that Google intends for Chrome to be installed as OEM, and plans/already has support for distributor branding, distributor FRUI, distributor start pages, and OEM installs, so I'm sure all that will be taken care of when you make that future computer purchase with OEM installed Chrome browser :-) On May 27, 3:55 pm, Meok <[email protected]> wrote: > When you install Chrome in your Windows profile, Chrome is invisible > to all other profiles and you have to manually install > it in each profile on the computer and each newly created profile. > > This is a problem in the following scenarios > > 1. OEM's / Technicians have no way to universally install Chrome for > all > present and future users on a system. > > 2. New converts to Chrome have to get the other computer users to > download > Chrome themselves. In other browsers, if one user installs the > browser, the > others are exposed to the icons to discover and launch it as well. > > 3. Whenever something gets messed up on my computer, I usually just > create > a new user profile and migrate my settings. ALL of my other programs > are > automatically available in my new profile except Chrome, which I have > to > download again. > > If you agree that this is a flaw, please a STAR to the following > issue:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=12752 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
