Chrome is the most powerful browser used by 65% of the people worldwide. Unfortunately Google forces some features on Chrome like no option to and not possible to. However, Google introduced additional options for disable bookmarks bar and remove the favicons with version 69. But still one annoying feature is forced on users that is automatic update. How Auto Update Works in Chrome? Chrome uses Google Update feature that in turns uses an open source program called for auto updating.
Turning off Auto-Updates on Windows. To turn off auto-updates of Google Chrome on Windows, you need to instruct Google Update to not update it. To do this, you can either: Use the Google Update ADM templates provided on this page or as described in this article.
Automatic update runs and check for the latest version whenever you connect to internet with 5 hours frequency. The auto update also runs whenever you go to the some of the settings page. For example, go to the “chrome://settings/help” and you will see the auto update will starts immediately.
Chrome Auto Update Note that the open source does not have auto update feature. Only Google Chrome has this on Windows and Mac, even it does not have auto update on Linux platform. You can keep track of major Chrome releases that happen once in every six weeks by subscribing to. Why Automatic Update May Annoy?
Automatic updates are good to keep your browser safe and secure up to date. The problem comes when there are changes in the functionalities. For example, earlier it was very easy to.
Now this has been changed to make the old user’s life difficult. There should be lot of embracement when you suddenly loose a feature which you were using for years. There are no options in Chrome for disabling this auto update feature or reverting back to earlier browser version. So you need to forcibly use the latest version whether you like it or not. How to Disable Automatic Chrome Update? For whatever reason you want to stop the automatic Chrome updates, you can do so in just a few steps.
This post will take you through the process of disabling the Chrome auto updates. Rename the update folder Windows. Using Windows system configuration Windows. From Windows service manager Windows. Disable using registry editor Windows. Change the auto update URL Mac.
Point all auto update URLs to localhost Windows and Mac. Modify plist file Mac 1. Rename Google Chrome Update Folder Windows This is one of the easiest methods that anyone can do without hassle. On Windows 10, go to the Chrome installation drive which is generally C: drive. Then navigate to “C: Program Files Google ”.
You will see the “Update” folder. Try to rename this folder; if you can then this will disable the Chrome update. In most of the cases, you can’t. Open “Update” folder and rename the “GoogleUpdate” application file to something like “GoogleUpdate1”. Disable Chrome Update Services. Restart the PC.
Disable Chrome Updates from Registry Editor Windows You can also stop Chrome from automatically updating by editing the registry keys. From the “Run” utility “Win + R” keys, type “regedit” and click “OK” to open the. On the registry editor open the “HKEYLOCALMACHINE” folder.
You may double click on the folder or click on the arrow to open. Open the “SOFTWARE” folder and scroll down to “Policies”. Right-click the “Policies” folder, select “New” then click “Key”. Rename the newly created key to “Google”.
Right click on the “Google” folder, select “New” then click on “Key” and rename the key to “Update”. On the right hand side of the registry editor, right click on the white space below the “Default” option and select “New” then choose “DWORD”. DWORD: AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes and Value: 0 DWORD: DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue and Value: 1 5. Change Chrome Auto Update URL Mac On Mac, you can try to change the Chrome auto update URL to disable the updates.
Open Finder and go to “Applications” folder. Right click or control + click on the Google Chrome folder and go to “Show Packaged Content”. Click “Contents” folder and open “Info.plist” file. Remember you need to have editors like Xcode to open plist file. Also you should have write permission for both “Contents” folder and “Info.plist” file to edit. Conclusion The automatic Chrome update is not a problem for most users but it is possible to stop them whenever you need to.
Google does not recommend stopping of these updates, as they are critical to improving your browsing experience and security. It is important to understand that by disabling the Chrome updates you could be vulnerable to serious security issues and at the same time missing on some new helpful features. If for some reason you want to disable the Chrome auto updates, always remember to check for the available updates manually and update them when you want. Moreover, you may enable the automatic updates by reversing the above procedures.
Is there a way to turn off Chrome's auto-update feature? There are 3 possible solutions:. Disable Chrome Update scheduled tasks. Disable 'Google Update' plugin.
Modify HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Policies Google Update Solution 1 - Disable Chrome Update scheduled tasks. 'Start' 'Run' 'Task Scheduler'. Select 'Task Scheduler Library'.
Select 'GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore', right click and select 'Disable'. Select 'GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA', right click and select 'Disable'. Close 'Task Scheduler' Solution 2 - Disable 'Google Update' plugin. Enter 'about: plugins' in the Address bar and press Enter. Search for 'Google Update' in the pop-up list and disable it.
Restart Chrome. Solution 3 - Modify HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Policies Google Update. Go the Registry Editor. Windows 7 - press Windows+ R at the same time to get the Run box, enter 'regedit' press Enter.
Windows 8 - move your cursor to the right corner of the top screen to get the Charms bar. Then click on 'Apps', enter 'run' in the search box, press Enter, enter 'regedit' in the pop-up box and press Enter.
Navigate to the following key: HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Policies Google Update. Look for 'UpdateDefault' on the right side of the Registry Editor and double click on it. Note: If you cannot find 'UpdateDefault', right click on a blank place in the right side click 'New' 'String Value' Name it 'UpdateDefault'. Change the value data to 0. Click 'OK' to save the changes Source. I found another and entirely different way to disable google chrome update in latest version 50.x. I followed this link.
You should get the Administrative template for your Windows, from mentioned in the article above. Launch group policy editor Navigate to Start Run: gpedit.msc. Import the template in this Administrative Templates screen,. Navigate to Administrative Templates Google Google Update Preferences.
On the right side select Modify the Auto-update check period override and select edit policy setting. Enable this property and select the checkbox Disable all the auto-update checks below the 'Minutes between update checks' I did this in Windows 10 running Chrome version 50.0.2661.102 m. You can also edit GoogleUpdate.exe's NTFS permissions by, first, removing the inheritance: icacls%localappdata% Google Update GoogleUpdate.exe /inheritance:r Then, remove the user's permissions to which the scheduled tasks 'GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore' and 'GoogleUpdateTaskMachineUA' are ran with: icacls%localappdata% Google Update GoogleUpdate.exe /remove:g%userdomain%%username% Depending on your Google Chrome Installation, the path may be different. I suggest taking a look in the 'Action' tab of both scheduled tasks to extract the exact path. EDIT: Actually, this feels like it's not enough. The GoogleUpdate.exe might not be there when you install Chrome and could be added later. You might want to create an empty file Chrome won't be able to overwrite: mkdir%localappdata% Google Update copy NUL%localappdata% Google Update GoogleUpdate.exe.