You will loose the ability to send crash reports and piggy back on that executable to update against your will whenever google deems convenient. You will loose the ability to auto update (which is the whole purpose right) and Kill GoogleCrashHandler.exe in any of its variants 32 or 64 bits or both.Ĭ:\Program Files (x86)\Google\CrashReporter You can look for available versions here:
(Get-Item (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe').'(Default)').VersionInfoĬhoco install googlechrome -version. The update also patched 42 vulnerabilities and paid. Then to prevent Chrome to self update I am performing this steps:ġ. Chrome 64-bit for Windows will replace the 32-bit version of the browser on the system in the process.
If you are running on a windows machine you can leverage the package manager chocolatey, this is how we I'm doing it from Jenkins, we call a powershell that uninstalls a previous version and install a specific one: From a powershell ide script window, you need to have installed the modules for chocolatey that is a small price to pay for a lot of benefit: choco install googlechrome -version.
