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Most people talking about Chrome's innovations would first highlight the security sandboxing and V8 JavaScript, but it was truly a revolutionary epoch in ecosystem norms. Or, why don't you hear about PDF hacks much anymore? ~Adobe adopted Chrome sandbox code. (Fun fact IE7 had sandbox long story)

Making me fondly remember the days of Google being good and a force for good changes.

This is a real problem with Linux as a whole as you need to act and use super user access to do updates. Still, the updates are more comprehensive and faster and generally the different distro tools can do it with simple clicks or CLI prompts. You do have to choose communism though

I remember when it came out and so many fellow engs being indignant that they would take control away from users that way. No one cares about what version of Gmail they are running tho. Auto updates were such a big deal

I loath how Chrome (and later Teams) decided it was a good idea to install themselves into $UserData$; It breaks the paradigm of separating code and data. It also opened a whole new vector of attacks - Don't crack the OS, just pwn the user, and run your backdoors in $UserTemp, leeching their data.

Dumb simple is awesome for most people. Especially large orgs. You're only as strong as your least tech savvy coworker, after all.

unlesssss...

I found out I could of course install programs *in* my Start Menu folder. Which ended up being genuinely useful to get WinRAR installed for some school stuff, but also allowed me to install a clock program because they had disabled the taskbar clock. ☹️

Then NT-based Windows came along, and people wanted to install that same software on systems that had user-level security. OOPS, now we need admin to write those DLLs and such. Took a LONG time for developers to just stop assuming they'd have admin access to install. It's a good trend.

Years ago I literally remember installing it on random university computers and showing others they could do it too, I think it might have triggered a privilege escalation prompt but I remember finding you could just go "nah" and it'd work fine anyway.

Ugh, in the XP days, I was running some version of NT (Win 2000?) that wasn't giving admin private by default. The admin promps made me aware of how much apps were using admin. Applications that were Windows certified rarely did that.

I remember this in a hospital as a desktop support! We were supposed to escalate _any_ instances of Chrome being found an a computer because it wasn't approved software. In reality, the machines were so locked down they assumed it was allowed! What's worse, sometimes it *fixed* sites for them!

You there, making me nostalgic for autorun.inf, the U3 cruzer/switchblade and portable apps, like ff portable, how dare you!

and the security benefits of tab and flash player sandboxing on top of that. that was also unmatched at the time.