The terrible impuldent Google Chrome Linux package default behaviour (Chrome overwritting default configurations without even asking)

Sunday, 15th August 2010

Recently I issued some kind of upgrade and have noticed Google Chrome is spit off the message you read below:

update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/bin/google-chrome because link group gnome-www-browser is broken.

I think this kind of insolent behaviour from Google’s Linux Chrome version is notable.
How come that the browser indulges itself to tamper with my default gnome-www-browser?
For the KDE users I feel indebted to mention that by default gnome-www-browser is linked to Epiphany
which itself is cross linked from /etc/alternatives/gnome-browser to /usr/bin/epiphany

I’m pretty happy with Epipahy most of the time so I decided to switch back my default gnome-www-browser by issuing the cmds:

debian:~# rm -f /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser
debian:~# ls -sf ln -sf /usr/bin/epiphany /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser

This will reverse back your default Gnome browser to Epiphany
Anyways this kind of behaviour of Google packaging their Google Chrome version to overwrite default configurations without even poping up a promptor something is really passive agressiveness.
Guess the passive agressiveness is an overall politics adopted by Google nowadays.

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