Thank you for your reply. Not many companies do that, and I recognise it is something that shows the good interest of a company for their users.
I’m an experimented user, so I wouldn’t have any problem with it. But I’m talking for most of my friends and family, the common inexperienced users. I remember how they installed a lot of “recommended” or “popular” software that came with “free extras”. They didn’t even noticed them, and continuously I had calls from them saying “Hey! I have an ‘x’ software here that is doing ‘y’ and I don’t know it”. That in the best case. In the worse, they just called me because their computers were slow, and noticed their computers filled with dozens of “extra software” that only made their slow computers even slower…
I’m not against companies alliances, nor with promotion and availability of extra software. But when these are installed by default, it only make worse the experience to “common users”, and that is something I have never liked.
If you can take in count my recommendation, I would propose that you do something like Java updates does: Talk to the user about the benefits of your partner’s product, and at the end, offer the option to install it to (Unchecked by default). This way, you and your partner will have true happy customers, and those uninterested or completely ignorant about these, won’t have a word against you.
I wish you success for present and future, is not either that you are doing it all the way wrong. The browser is going on a good path.