Update: Several visitors have inquired how I realized my problem in Jan 2014 was due to a Chrome upgrade. I didn’t just repair my internet browser set up — I personally removed all associated information and reinstalled from the begining, ran stress assessments and assessments on all of my components such as both RAM and CPU, turned from an Nvidia to an AMD GPU, verified that the internet browser would accident with just one tab and one screen open (meaning not a storage flow issue), personally supervised Chrome’s storage use through Procedure Traveler, and tried the conventional problem solving methods like eliminating all plug-ins and limiting GPU speeding. None of it proved helpful. I didn’t include all this in the initial tale because the point was to pay attention to the lack of ability to turn off auto-updates, not the situation that led me to do so in the first place, but since folks have been asking, there it is.
Original story:
I’ve been a Search engines Chrome customer for so many years, I can’t keep in mind when I turned. It’s been my preferred internet browser for years — I keep in mind being offered away by how fast it was in contrast to Chrome, and while Mozilla has enhanced its internet browser considerably since 2008, Chrome still seems quicker in many situations. I’m going to skip Chrome — but I’m no more willing to accept the way Search engines manages the upgrade process. It’s extremely user-hostile and it’s based on a belief of infallibility.
Up until Jan 2014, I never provided a thought to Chrome’s regular auto-updates. Then I got hit with edition 32.0.1700, and my encounter went directly to terrible. Chrome started failing more than 20x a day, generally without the option to restore the past period. In some situations, I’d start restoration and the internet browser would accident before completing the procedure. I tried all of the problem solving methods I might discover online and a few conventional alternatives, like limiting GPU speeding. Nothing proved helpful.
That’s when I discovered that Search engines watches the Internet and prohibits anyone from providing old editions of Chrome to obtain. Computer file gathering or amassing sites like OldVersion.com and FileHippo don’t database Chrome. FileHippo has a observe that declares Google’s guidelines stop the site from providing downloading. I discovered a few downloading for the early edition of Chrome, but all I desired to do was take a step returning to edition 31 — and at adequate time, I couldn’t discover it anywhere. In the end, I downloadable a try out edition of Chromium.
After my encounter with Chrome 32, I desired to create certain I wasn’t captured by shock again. Unfortunately, Chrome’s auto-update plan is purposely difficult to use. Initially, you could turn off Chrome’s Auto-Update via personal computer principles. Search engines experienced this was vulnerable, however, and required that you have to be able to modify team guidelines in Ms windows to help create these changes. By conventional, that reduces auto-update control only to Ms windows seven or Ms windows 8 Expert. Fortunately, I have Ms windows seven Pro, so I impaired the upgrade process and went on my way.
Google Auto-Updates anyway
Last Aug, I signed into my program and discovered that Chrome had been modified. It changes out that Search engines had created changes to its own upgrade process. It was no more adequate to set the “Auto-Update Check Interval Override” to 0, as it had been. Now, the company’s help webpages included the following: “Warning: To avoid misuse of this plan, if a device is not signed up with to an Effective Listing sector, and if this plan has been set to 0 or to a value greater than 77 time, this establishing will not be recognized and modified by 77 time after Aug 2014. If you are suffering from this, and still want to turn off Chrome up-dates (NOT RECOMMENDED), you may do so by using ‘Update plan override’ as described.”
In other terms, Search engines was still able to achieve into my machine and intentionally upgrade my application. I created the appropriate additional changes described above and again went about my business. It changes out, Search engines really dislikes it when you do that. I started to see pop-ups, at least once a day, informing me that I needed to upgrade Search engines Chrome personally. Search engines services like Googlemail or Search engines Drive would include a yellow-colored advertising (shown below) when I tried to use them. The advertising would pop up every single time I used a Search engines service, and obviously can’t be ignored or obstructed.
Then, last week, I ceased getting the mistakes. I examined my Search engines edition and discovered I’m now operating 44.0.2403.89. My plan configurations haven’t modified. The only way to set them is by personally modifying gpedit.msc, and that’s not a control you get into unintentionally. My Downloads directory indicates that I haven’t downloadable Chrome’s set up software for more than a year. Somehow, and entirely not by choice, I’m operating a new internet browser edition.
I’m aware, of course, that the pattern in application is to power customers to set up protection up-dates by conventional, and if Search engines had only created protection areas compulsory, I’d have little problem with the company. My problem with Chrome isn’t that Search engines forced out a damaged application edition that damaged 20x a day on my primary program — my problem is that Search engines has created it almost difficult to actually choose not to upgrade your internet browser. You can’t opt out. You can’t set up an older edition. You can’t closed Automatic Update off unless you own the professional edition of the Ms windows OS (though there are hackers to allow gpedit.msc to run on other editions of Windows). Even once you’ve hopped through the basketball required to closed off Automatic Update, Search engines maintains the ability to turn it right returning on. Ms windows 10 at least allows customers to remove up-dates if they cause a problem. In Google’s world, every edition is better than the last for everyone, period, without exemption.
I still like Chrome, but I’m no more willing to put up with Google’s lockdown and desire to bypass its own upgrade guidelines. Returning to Chrome for me.
