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We clean our own table when eating at McDonald's

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Apparently someone did forget to clean up their mess.  Yesterday I installed Chrome Frame to test it.  Then my IE8 on Windows 7 64bit started to crash, so this morning I figured I'd better to uninstall it to see what happens.  And IE crashed no more.

This afternoon I noticed that I could not open anything hyperlink in Outlook or Word.  A dialog pops up saying "this operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer".(Yes, this is Microsoft error msg style, <insert-your-own-joke-here/>)  After checking KB310049 with no luck, I started a little Binging and found the answer in the first result. (btw, another search engine returns it at the 2nd result, nice try!).

And Google Chrome Frame is the one to blame. After un-installation, it leaves related registry values under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes as ChromeHTML, instead of htmlfile, which fires up the default browser correctly.

This computer has IE8, Firefox 3.5, Chrome, Safari, Opera installed, so it might be a little bit complicated for Frame's setup routines to handle.  However, I've been wanting to do this for a while now: Google engineers, GOTCHA!  But, if any googler wants to investigate, just drop me a line and I'm happy to provide MPS report or other troubleshooting data for diagnostics.

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  • Anonymous
    September 23, 2009
    The only bright side of this is that it's not quite as bad as the early days of Netscape, when uninstalling Netscape would take half of Windows with it.

  • Anonymous
    September 25, 2009
    The irony here is that the 'other' browser throws up this as the first result: http://support.MICROSOFT.com/kb/310049

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2009
    Installation and uninstallation are hard problems.  That's why MSFT has been tackling it for years.  I wouldn't be surprised to see Google rolled their own solution their as well.

  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2009
    Wow.  Just Wow.  Can't believe microsoft is sinking so low as to criticize something which has VERY CLEARLY been STATED TO BE AN EARLY DEVELOPER PREVIEW.  To mock it like that is just hypocritical. By the way, this wouldn't have been necessary if MSFT hadn't entirely disregarded widely-accepted standards when designing their browser. Guys, just cut the FUD, will you? I sincerely hope that Microsoft is able enough to handle being criticized a little to not censor out my comment.

  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2009
    I'm refreshed that you didn't censor out my critical comment.