(That added to how hard it felt to keep Chrome from ever being installed on a machine, because sometimes you'd overlook the "Google Toolbar" in older installers as yet another trojan horse for Chrome.)Įventually the Google Toolbar itself would just auto-upgrade to Chrome as well.Īnecdotally, my father liked the Google toolbar for giving a separate search box in IE, but disliked Chrome and was confused when Chrome auto-installed and the Google Toolbar partly became a big ad for "congrats, you can use Chrome now", and that was one of his reasons to (finally) switch to Firefox for good (he used both IE and Firefox for a long time prior).įor the first couple of years Chrome crashed pretty regularly for me. If you didn't uncheck hidden "Google Toolbar" checkboxes, that would also auto-install Chrome.
Almost every installer that ever installed Google Toolbar was automatically a Chrome auto-installer, "thanks" to software as a service.
The Google Toolbar adware installer component itself (the "Google Updater" or something like that) that you remember in installers eventually silently upgraded to a Chrome installer.
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