Why Im dumping Google Chrome. Ive been a Google Chrome user for so many years, I cant remember when I switched. Its been my favorite browser for a long time I remember being blown away by how fast it was compared with Firefox, and while Mozilla has improved its browser significantly since 2. Chrome still feels faster in many cases. Im going to miss Chrome but Im no longer willing to tolerate the way Google handles the update process. Google-Earth-Pro.jpg' alt='How Do I Reinstall Google Earth' title='How Do I Reinstall Google Earth' />Its incredibly user hostile and its based on a myth of infallibility. Up until January 2. I never gave a thought to Chromes frequent auto updates. Then I got hit with version 3. Chrome began crashing upwards of 2. In some cases, Id initiate recovery and the browser would crash before finishing the process. I tried all of the troubleshooting techniques I could find online and a few standard solutions, like disabling GPU acceleration. How Do I Reinstall Google Earth' title='How Do I Reinstall Google Earth' />A Google employee familiar with the feature spoke to Lifehacker to clarify how corrections to the OneBox section affect search results. Feedback is ordered by. Tested mic input on Google Voice. Passed mic test. 1. Mic input via G Translate is not registering my voice. No text appears. 2. After inputting typed text. Nothing worked. Thats when I discovered that Google monitors the Internet and forbids anyone from offering old versions of Chrome to download. File aggregation sites like Old. Version. com and File. Hippo dont archive Chrome. File. Hippo has a notice that states Googles policies disallow the site from offering downloads. I found a few downloads for the early version of Chrome, but all I wanted to do was step back to version 3. I couldnt find it anywhere. In the end, I downloaded a beta version of Chromium. After my experience with Chrome 3. I wanted to make certain I wasnt caught by surprise again. Unfortunately, Chromes auto update policy is deliberately difficult to use. Originally, you could disable Chromes Auto Update via registry values. Google felt this was insecure, however, and mandated that you have to be able to edit group policies in Windows in order to make these changes. By default, that restricts auto update control only to Windows 7 or Windows 8 Professional. Luckily, I have Windows 7 Pro, so I disabled the update process and went on my way. Google Auto Updates anyway. Last August, I logged into my system and found that Chrome had been updated. It turns out that Google had made changes to its own update process. It was no longer sufficient to set the Auto Update Check Period Override to 0, as it had been. Now, the companys help pages contained the following Warning To prevent abuse of this policy, if a device is not joined to an Active Directory domain, and if this policy has been set to 0 or to a value greater than 7. August 2. 01. 4. If you are affected by this, and still want to disable Chrome updates NOT RECOMMENDED, you may do so by using Update policy override as described. In other words, Google was still able to reach into my machine and forcibly update my software. I made the appropriate additional changes described above and again went about my business. Iphoto Torrent Dmg. It turns out, Google really hates it when you do that. I began to see pop ups, at least once a day, telling me that I needed to update Google Chrome manually. Google services like Gmail or Google Drive would embed a yellow banner shown below when I attempted to use them. The banner would pop up every single time I used a Google service, and apparently cant be dismissed or blocked. Then, last week, I stopped getting the errors. I checked my Google version and discovered Im now running 4. My policy settings havent changed. The only way to set them is by manually editing gpedit. My Downloads folder indicates that I havent downloaded Chromes installer for more than a year. Somehow, and entirely not by choice, Im running a new browser version. Im aware, of course, that the trend in software is to force users to install security updates by default, and if Google had only made security patches mandatory, Id have little issue with the company. Sims 3 Monte Vista Crack here. My problem with Chrome isnt that Google pushed out a broken software version that crashed 2. Google has made it virtually impossible to actually choose not to update your browser. You cant opt out. You cant install an older version. You cant shut Auto Update off unless you own the professional version of the Windows OS though there are hacks to allow gpedit. Windows. Even once youve jumped through the hoops required to shut off Auto Update, Google retains the ability to turn it right back on. Windows 1. 0 at least allows users to uninstall updates if they cause a problem. In Googles world, every version is better than the last for everyone, period, without exception. I still like Chrome, but Im no longer willing to put up with Googles lockdown and willingness to override its own update policies. Back to Firefox for me. Update Multiple readers have questioned how I knew my problem in January 2. Chrome update. I didnt just troubleshoot my browser installation I manually deleted all associated files and reinstalled from scratch, ran stress tests and evaluations on all of my hardware including both RAM and CPU, switched from an Nvidia to an AMD GPU, confirmed that the browser would crash with just one tab and one window open meaning not a memory leak issue, manually monitored Chromes memory use through Process Explorer, and tried the standard troubleshooting techniques like removing all plugins and disabling GPU acceleration. None of it worked. I didnt include all this in the initial story because the point was to focus on the inability to disable auto updates, not the scenario that led me to do so in the first place, but since folks have been asking, there it is.