Chrome Stable Channel Update

This is quite possibly the way it's going to be from now on due to the change to AppContainer.

 

I've upgraded it manually by downlaoding installer. It reinstalled update services and tasks, which I have deleted in past. I guess I will be leaving them on manual and disable tasks only.

 

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/08/stable-channel-update.html

 

The built in updater still not working so it looks like i will have to download the installer again.

 

I could update through built-in updater. First it showed me "Google Chrome is up to date", after once refreshing (F5) it started to download and installed it.

 

The downloaded installer was quick. The actual install only took about 10 seconds today.

 

Manual update for me again. It's how I do Firefox updates, so I guess I can deal...

 

I could not update to .130 via the internal "About Google Chrome", so I changed both Google Update startup type in Services from Manual to Automatic and rebooted.

One machine updated on reboot from .125 to .130. The other took longer (less than an hour) before .130 showed up. I then reset both Google Update services to Manual until next time I want to update. This seems to work for me... for now.

Edit in: These are two 7x64 machines (with Chrome 64-bit) in case it matters to anyone.

 

+1

 

On 2 other PCs I'm around, the Win 7 one auto updated just fine. The 8.1 model didn't on its own but did after refreshing the "About" page several times. Almost seems like Google is rolling out the updates in batches... not all at once. I know I can't grasp what is going on!

 

It's indeed a puzzlement. I have been dutifully utilizing the 'Report a Problem' button, in an effort to provide them with system info feed back. Hard to figure how something like this could affect so many and be broken for so long.

 

Been using chrome for a week and I can see now why so many have moved over.

In all the following categories chrome beats firefox by a lot.

Performance
Stability (at least vs 32bit firefox)
Memory usage
Multimedia use - netflix, youtube etc.
Security (note tho privacy issues)

Firefox beats chrome in its UI and thats about it. The one other thing it beats on is its customisation. But I dont know how important those 2 things are to people now days given so many accepted chrome's crappy UI.

As it stands I am still using IE11, chrome and firefox (via cyberfox), but chrome is now my browser for forums, and media sites. Firefox is now just for research and lan tasks.

For the curious here is my current chrome startup options. (this still been tinkered with by me)

"start chrome.exe --cipher-suite-blacklist=0x009c,0xc009,0xc00a,0xcc15,0x009e --disable-backing-store-limit --disable-3d-apis --disable-breakpad --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-cloud-import --disable-direct-write --disable-directwrite-for-ui --disable-java --disable-password-generation --disable-physical-keyboard-autocorrect --disable-preconnect --enable-remote-fonts --disable-suggestions-service --disable-timezone-tracking-option --disable-webgl --disable-webrtc --disk-cache-dir=R:/CHROME2 --disk-cache-size=524288000 --dns-prefetch-disable --enable-async-dns --enable-bookmark-undo --enable-devtools-experiments --enable-download-resumption --enable-fast-unload --disable-potentially-annoying-security-features --enable-stale-while-revalidate --disable-strict-mixed-content-checking --enable-strict-powerful-feature-restrictions --enable-smooth-scrolling --enable-tcp-fastopen --process-per-site --disable-background-mode --no-pings --purge-memory-button --enable-offline-auto-reload-visible-only"

Whats really eye opening is plugins like youtube centre work brilliant on chrome, barely any effect on performance, but on firefox it struggles with skyrocketing memory usage and some slowdowns.

 

All well and good but this is a Chrome Stable Channel Update thread.

 

I do.

 

Posted yesterday in the remarks section of the .130 Stable Channel Update on the Chrome Releases blogspot.
I couldn't agree more with Phil-osopher!

 

this would depend on which operating system is used and other differing criteria.
I am currently using chrome on linux and i see no fundamental differences between chrome and firefox in terms of performance or memory use.Chrome may run better on your system but its impossible to say how they both run on different configurations etc.

 

Do you anticipate this having an impact on the stable channel update process?

 

I'd like to try to keep this thread about Chrome Stable Channel Updates.

 

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/08/stable-channel-update_11.html

 

The built in updater worked this time for 155 x64

 

Count yourself one of the lucky ones, Dragon. Isn't happening here, even with Services set to auto-start.

Thanks for the heads up, Minimalist!

 

Same here, neither on Win8.1 x64 nor Win7 x86 worked. What's going on?

 

Been going on for awhile now, Mister X. Plenty of users are impacted. Good idea to make use of the 'Report an issue' button on the internal updater page. You can also elect to send them a screenshot along with system info. Doesn't hurt, and might help.