Mozilla could've paid for more advertising (e.g, partner up with Yahoo or some other big web property). But even with a push like that, FF won't have won because it didn't the high performance that drove Chrome's retention rate.
My parents never wanted to install Chrome. They still ended up have it. It came with an update and they didn't uncheck a checkbox. All their friends use Chrome also because of this despicable trick.
When this wave of bundled malware behavior by Google started and I had to uninstall it all over the people and family where I installed Firefox before, I stopped using it as a second browser too.
I whish someone would finally sue them for this. At least to give it the attention it should have.
what update? Windows update? Or did they download some software, and the installer came with chrome as well?
No it was some other software where it came with the installer. I assume it was Avast as I've seen it in an update already on a different computer.
When you installed or upgraded Flash, unless you checked a checkbox, Chrome would be installed.