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Uninstalling Google Chrome can mess up your PC(if it was set as default browser)
Darwin:
Re-reading bits and pieces of this thread, I wonder if this issue arises only if the end-user sets Chrome as their default browser? For myself, having gone through it, I'm not willing to test this theory!
Curt:
-I think you may be right, Darwin.
I tested Chrome and did not have any of these problems; I kept Firefox as default browser.
Edited:
Is the trick merely to set another browser as default before removing Chrome? :-\
MilesAhead:
I remember Windows used to have big problems for file type associations. When you set something as the associated app for a file extension it just overwrote the entry. I can remember stuff like WinZip and UltimateZip fighting over the zip file extension. Now I think Windows remembers the previous one so you can uninstall.
But I think it still has that same old default browser bug.
Somebody on this forum may know more about how the registry acts with default browser setting generally:
http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/
Darwin:
Is the trick merely to set another browser as default before removing Chrome? :-\
-Curt (April 27, 2011, 10:04 AM)
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One of the "fixes" I tried was to re-install Chrome, set it as default, reboot, set IE as default, reboot, then uninstall Chrome. Didn't work! Of course, that was a while back... If I do give it a spin again, I'll definitely be sure NOT to let it set itself as my default browser, though! Having said that, I'm perfectly content with IE9.
SKA:
More on this by MS MVP Robear Dyer :
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/link_restrict.htm#other
Ska
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