As well, this might be a useful link for administrators who wish to deploy Chrome. http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/05/improvements-to-google-update-for.html <http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/05/improvements-to-google-update-for.html> -- Mohamed Mansour
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:41 PM, dhhwai <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
