How to disable Google Chrome auto update?

Question

Does anyone know how to disable Google Chrome for being automatic update itself, it cause my web application always change?

I have tried these methods:

Answer 1

In addition to the most upvoted answer, it might be good to remove these as well for the sake of cleanness.

Answer 2

To get rid of Chrome 44 and go back to 43 I downloaded a stand-alone version of chrome 43 which is an .exe file and I just double clicked on it and it was installed on my computer WITHOUT updating to Chrome 44, to find the link to Chrome 43 have a look to the bottom of this page Google Chrome 64-bit Offline Installer| 45.7 MB or go to enter link description here.

Have Fun :)

Answer 3

This is just a trick to stop auto update of Google Chrome in Mac OS.

1. Go to Applications Folder in Finder.
2. Right click Google Chrome and select Show Package Contents.
3. Go to Contents directory.
4. Open Info.plist file with XCode or other text editor.
5. Change the value of the key: KSUpdateURL to an invalid URL. something like https://tools.google.com/service/invalidurl
6. Overwrite Info.plist file.
7. Restart Google Chrome.

Finally go to Google Chrome Settings / About. You will see Update always fails because the update url was set to an invalid one.

Answer 4

Simple hacky way is to rename Updates folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google. Done it to freeze my chrome at 44 untill proper NPAPI replacement is supported by majority of plugins.

Answer 5

For Windows only

To completely disable automatic Chrome updates create/edit the following registry keys/dwords under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update:

• Dword: AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes Value: 0
• Dword: DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue Value: 1
• Dword: UpdateDefault Value: 0
• Dword: Update{8A69D345-D564-463C-AFF1-A69D9E530F96} Value: 0

This last one was the money for me. Until I added it updates were enabled in chrome://chrome.

Note: On 64-bit machines running 32-bit Chrome you may need to put the dwords under the following key instead: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies\Google\Update.

I created a GitHub gist powershell script to create the dwords under both Policies and Wow6432Node\Policies.

Answer 6

On Windows OS:

1) open following file for edit (as an admin): C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (this file has no extension)

2) on the bottom, add one line: 127.0.0.1 tools.google.com

3) save the file

4) enjoy old Chrome