[sunshowers]

The other aspect, somewhat memory-holed, was that Chrome was automatically installed as shovelware if you went to install Adobe Flash for IE or Firefox:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/23jnmy/why_is_chrom...

This kind of not-freely-given consent was key to Chrome's growth.

[badwolf]

Chrome was bundled with so many installers. Google probably spent billions shoving Chrome into any machine they could.

[hyperdimension]

Tellingly, that very bundling is how Sundar got into the spotlight at Google.