Chrome? Bloat?? Ummm... Not sure how you arrived at that conclusion. I find that putting Chrome on computer-illiterate users' PCs actually reduces the amount of bloat they end up with. Have you never gone to a client's PC to find they have IE with 6 or 7 toolbars installed as free "extras" from various packages they've installed? Maybe a Yahoo toolbar, a Google toolbar, sometimes the odd warez or pr0n toolbar, a couple of printer driver toolbars and of course the free virus checker toolbars. All installed fairly innocently.
Sure, though mostly on outdated systems running outdated versions of IE. I also find other "bloat" such as Chrome, Safari, etc., all installed inadvertently because a user wanted to install Google Maps, iTunes, etc.
I get calls from users unable to perform work-related functions because the sites they visit do not work on Chrome which was inadvertently installed.
Anyone with a "slow internet" problem that I've told to install Chrome have been blown away by the speed and efficiency of it, and that's mostly to do with the toolbars and plugins rather than IE itself.
That's fine. I'm just not a fan of applications trying to push down other applications to unsuspecting users, like Chrome, McAfee Security Scan, etc. Seriously - if someone WANTS to install Chrome, they will install it - they don't need it pushed to them.
And way to go helping out your users there by leaving them with broken shortcuts. It's a pretty crap way of handling things on Chrome's part, but you sound like you enjoy the extra hassle you cause your clients by doing that.
Who said my clients were left like that?
