While using Google’s Chrome browser to access Mozilla’s website and download Firefox 4, we encountered a smug little message on the lower left hand corner of our screen:
This type of file can harm your computer. Are you sure that you want to download Firefox Setup 4.0.exe?
Well, what a way to dissuade people from downloading your competitor’s web browser! There’s a lot of talk of net neutrality and how ISPs could possibly restrict access to competiting service providers, but what about web browsers? Should there be increased “browser neutrality” too?
Surely Google Chrome should know better than to insinuate that a respected and widely used browser could possibly be malware? Or is it just the latest shot in the unrelenting browser wars!
