I had my encounter last night with the new Google/Firefox software.  I was basically held hostage by Google.  Unchecking all of their boxes would not enable the "finish" button.  I did a control-alt-del and rebooted only to find it back on my front page.  I have google as the default search engine for my MS browser and had left the Yahoo as the browser for my Firefox engine.  I finally found that clicking one box enabled the "finish button," but I still don't know what I agreed to enable.  How is this not malware?

Such arrogance richly deserves a massively heavy handed governmental response.  I doubt it will be forthcoming.  A friend of mine, (out of respect for poemless I will not specify his nominal national affiliation,) once threatened a Sacramento based company that if they didn't fix a problem their equipment had caused he would fly up to Sacramento, rent a car, go to their parking lot and slash all of the tires!  Would that someone would so react to this sort of presumptive arrogance.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."