[jlarocco]

I'm not doubting that there are malicious third parties distributing them, but Google themselves delivers Chromium that way:

https://download-chromium.appspot.com/

It's linked from the main chromium site:

https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium/

[3eb7988a1663]

I thought that was a pretty common pattern now for a variety of software tools. Was pretty sure that Chrome + Firefox did not need administrator privileges to be available to a user.