Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th May 2009 16:58 UTC, submitted by zegenie
The internet has been abuzz the entire weekend about Microsoft supposedly forcing Internet Explorer 8 to be the default browser once you upgraded to it. Users reported that upon installing IE8, Microsoft's latest browser was automatically made the default one, without a notification. However, as it turns out, it's all been a bit overhyped.
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2005-07-06
When given the choice of if I want to do an express vs. custom install I always do the custom install on any software. Yahoo is notoriously bad for this, in that it will make everything about your browser become a Yahoo browser by installing the toolbar, setting the home page to yahoo, setting the default email to yahoo. But back to browsers, Firefox does something similar on install, they have a small box checked to make it the default. Besides, almost all browsers now check to see if they are the default.