Chrome Stable Channel Update

Thanks, anon!
44 contains 43 security fixes. That's impressive.

 

+1

 

That's nice to hear. More fixes are applied, more the browser is secure...

 

Chrome 64 is just far better than chrome 32 was for me. With one tab open my memory goes up by about 800mb with all of my extensions.

 

Looks like Chrome is forcing the user name button next to the minimise button. I had it disabled as I'm the only user but after today's update it is now back even though it is disabled in the chrome://flags page

 

Yes, I noticed that as well, and immediately went to the chrome://flags page and discovered that the “Enable new profile management system” entry is still disabled from the last time Chrome dished this profile management menu up.

Hopefully someone will post back with a new way to 86 this annoying little menu.

Edit in: This is already noted in the comments section of the Chrome Release blogspot as follows:

 

Found a way to get rid of it or at least hide it until Google remove it lol, simply add --disable-new-avatar-menu to the Chrome shortcut

@Page42 Google has a bad habit of forcing unpopular changes on chrome users but at least we can now hide that annoying button.

 

When I try that, I get a dialog that says the name specified in the target box is not valid. I'd like to see exactly how you entered that as a path.
The other thing I wonder about is the fact that I only use a desktop shortcut one time to open Chrome, and after that it is all child windows opened via tabs.
Does applying this --disable-new-avatar-menu to the shortcut path mean all child windows opened via tabs will not have the profile management menu?

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-new-avatar-menu

Works for me.

 

Works for me now too. Thanks, Banzi!

 

Still have to wait for v45 for the Logjam fix though.. Firefox already fixed it 3 weeks ago with v39. Usually Chrome is quick on security, both for fixes and new security features, so strange that they wait so long to fix it.

 

@Page42 I use Object Dock free so I just added --disable-new-avatar-menu to the arguments box in the edit shortcut options. For a desktop shortcut it would be

C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --disable-new-avatar-menu

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-new-avatar-menu

C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-new-avatar-menu

Glad it's now working for you & others

 

Hardware acceleration on latest v44.0.2403.89 is broken on my Arch setup on quite old hardware. I have to disable it or I can't see right-click context menus, bookmarks, or drop down menus on my extensions, etc...Is anyone else seeing this?

 

It's using AppContainer now on my Windows 8.1

 

Brand new Chrome 44 release added a bug

http://www.zdnet.com/article/brand-new-chrome-44-release-added-a-bug/

 

Google Chrome 44.0.2403.107
Friday, July 24, 2015

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/

 

As some commenters have noted, the update isn't working right now.

 

I was wondering why it wouldn't update.

 

Yes. As one commenter noted...

... but I'm perfectly willing to wait for the internal updater to start working.

 

Well, the update is available now, but I also discovered that Google Update had been turned back on on both of my machines. The reason I looked was because when I went to update one machine, it had already been updated.

It's quite possible that this change occurred when I upgraded to 64-bit very recently.
It's also possible that Google keeps silently turning the auto-updating back on.

I found that in Services, gupdate was reset to automatic, delayed start (I quickly set it back to disabled), and gupdatem was set to manual start, which I left alone, believing that if I disabled it, I wouldn't be able to manually update as I have been doing.

I also checked Task Scheduler and Google Update was enabled there, which I disabled.

The third place I looked is WinPatrol, and it had Google Update turned off, but I didn't look there until I had changed the other two places.

 

Update still not working here.

 

I was trying to update Chrome on another computer 3 days ago and the internal update mechanism didn't work then either.

 

You can use these links instead to download offline installer. Run it and it'll repair the internal update mechanism:
http://redirector.gvt1.com/edgedl/chrome/win/C2C79A9E41382DC6/44.0.2403.107_chrome64_installer.exe
http://redirector.gvt1.com/edgedl/chrome/win/2EFE47E970C927DF/44.0.2403.107_chrome_installer.exe

 

I downloaded Chrome from that link and now I'm in a Relaunch loop.