Managing Chrome Updates is a nightmare?
It appears that managing updates to Google Chrome is a complete nightmare when working with TestComplete. I am curious how others manage this. This week Google pushed out Chrome 42 and all my PCs...
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Turn off automatic updates in Chrome?
How do you do that? Chrome stopped honoring Registry settings to disable udpates and it appears the only way to manage this now is through Group Policy changes? I don't know much about Group Policy settings and I am guessing this is something my IT department would have to manage and that I can't control on my test PCs? Is that so?
Hi,
> How do you do that? Chrome stopped honoring Registry settings to disable udpates and it appears the only way to manage this now is through Group Policy changes?
Personally I used to navigate to c:\users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Google\ folder and rename the Update folder to something else.
joseph_michaudStaff
> How do you do that? Chrome stopped honoring Registry settings to disable udpates...
Can you verify that please? The Chrome Settings article ( http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/62859/#Settings ) talks about Disabling Automatic Updates. The registry setting it refers to still seems to work for me. When I set
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update\UpdateDefaultto 0, the About Chrome page tells me that updates are disabled. (I'm now updated to Chrome 42...)Are you using the stable, beta, or dev release?
Yes, Google Chrome ignores the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update\UpdateDefault setting. This used to work but no longer. If you have this set to 0 the About page in Chrome will show "Updates are disabled by the administrator" but the updates are still applied.
I have this setting as 0 on all my PCs and Chrome updated from 41 to 42 recently on its own.
