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[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

In game mode if you navigate to library then to non-steam, if your list is empty it will prompt you to install Chrome. Maybe it was somewhere else, but yes, the prompt exists regardless.

Edit: Picure I got from the Interner to illustrate my comment:

Edit 2: More proof that it never happened and either I'm imagining things or making it up:

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Did they install chrome in desktop mode and Steam picked it up and asked if they wanted a shortcut to it? From what I can tell you get Firefox by default in desktop mode?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Nope... It's literally just a placeholder to allow people in game mode to install chrome and access the Internet without having to switch to desktop mode.

Until they make a better way to add non-Steam shortcuts in game mode.

It literally explains it in the prompt.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then that's like a totally avoidable thing. There is no Google Chrome there unless you want it to have it

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago
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