[rythie]

If you try to install Flash on Windows, by default Chrome gets installed too (and probably prompts you to make it default). It doesn't even ask you at install time, it's a default checked checkbox on the webpage you download from - very easy to miss.

[caw]

Is this a particular geo thing? In the US, I'm getting a McAfee add-on to de-select prior to download.

[lambda_cube]

I don't think it's regional. I'm in Sweden and if I visit the Flash install page with IE I get Chrome as pre-selected and if I visit with Firefox I get the McAfee add-on. (And when I'm using Linux, as usual, there are no extra applications installed.)

[caw]

That's a good catch. The browser thing seems logical. I tried all the permutations I could:

Chrome - McAfee

IE9 - Chrome & Google Toolbar

Firefox - McAfee

[kattuviriyan]

Probably the stub found that you already have Chrome installed.

[Achshar]

A webpage finding out what software I have installed is all kinds of bad, esp if there is no flash involved since its the page to download flash.

[Filligree]

Well, it can certainly find out what browser you're using.

[rythie]

I'm in the UK and it did this - fresh install of Windows 7 (in a VM)

[walid]

It's the same in Lebanon.

[cooldeal]

I think both Flash and Java updates(99% of PCs have them) install Chrome by default.