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Just be aware that your instructions may have to change soon; Google is slated to start blocking all local extensions unless users install the Dev or Canary channel builds on Windows [1].

[1] http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/11/07/google-block-local-c...

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Sounds like a matter† for the MSFT legal department. I'm rarely in MSFT's corner, but this would an exception.

†http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act

Only to be told that they have to open up their Windows 8 Store App installation model as well? I don't think so.

The no-freedom-to-install-whatever-you-want movement is deeply entrenched in the IT behemoths.

That's fine, I suspect the %age of Windows users at Yale is fairly small.

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