"Me, too". Just supporting what has been said here. I had to reinstall Windows on a spare laptop and it is now sitting in there with "Installing Google Chrome" running and running and running at about 90% on the status bar. It's been like that for close to 30 minutes -- in a way I'm glad to see that others say that it took 45 minutes to install the thing, as I was about to try to stop the process and reboot to see if the computer had been locked up irreparably. I'll wait a while instead, in hopes that it will finally finish.
There was NO option, no check box, to not install Chrome, no warning at all that it would even be installed. Avast 8 just started installing, and Chrome was included without any notice what so ever that it would be installed. Once it starts, there is no way to stop the install, no way to hurry it up, you just have to sit and expect to dedicate a large chunk of your day to something you did not want at all.
Now, I actually like Chrome, and use it on my other computers. However, that is not the issue. The issue is that we're given no choice, and then can't get on with our work until the 45-or-whatever minutes passes that should have been a 10-minute install.
This is unacceptable and far below what I expect from Avast.