Chrome Auto Update Mac

Lewis Lebentz Code, tech and cool stuff Twitter GitHub LinkedIn Automatically update Chrome via Jamf Pro 08 Mar 2017. It’s always good to be up-to-date, especially with vulnerabilities being publicised on a regular basis, and people like the CIA and NSA hacking everything.
The device you have runs on Chrome OS, which already has Chrome browser built-in. No need to manually install or update it — with automatic updates, you’ll always get the latest version.

Does anyone know how to disable Google Chrome auto-update for MAC OS? I tried: Renaming the GoogleSoftwareUpdate folder; Change Google Chrome auto-update URL; Command defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0 in terminal; It doesn't work for me.

Use Software Update

Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu , then click Software Update to check for updates.
If any updates are available, click the Update Now button to install them. Or click “More info” to see details about each update and select specific updates to install. You might be asked to enter your administrator password.
When Software Update says that your Mac is up to date, the installed version of macOS and all of its apps are also up to date. That includes Safari, Music, Photos, Books, Messages, Mail, Calendar, and FaceTime.
To automatically install future updates, including for apps that you got from the App Store, select “Automatically keep my Mac up to date.” Your Mac will notify you when updates require it to restart, so you can always choose to install those later.

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Chrome Update For Macbook Pro

Learn how to get updates for earlier versions of macOS that don't include Software Update preferences.
You can also use the App Store to update apps or redownload apps that came from the App Store.
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When your Mac is connected to a Personal Hotspot, large updates don't download automatically.

Disable Chrome Auto Update Mac

Documentation for Administrators‎ > ‎

Turning Off Auto Updates in Google Chrome

Google Chrome on Windows and Mac auto-updates itself on a regular basis. The auto-updating procedure is performed by Google Update, which is based on the open-source Omaha project. Auto-updated provide fixes to sometimes critical issues, limiting exposure.

Warning: Turning off auto-updates should be done with caution. You may not receive the latest security updates if you do not auto-update.

Turning off Auto-Updates on Windows

To turn off auto-updates of Google Chrome on Windows, you need to instruct Google Update to not update it. To do this, you can either:

Use the Google Update ADM templates provided on this page or as described in this article.
Set the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesGoogleUpdateAutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes to the REG_DWORD value of '0'.

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 77 hours, this setting will not be honored and replaced by 77 hours after August 2014. 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 here.

More information about Google Update's group policy support is here.

More information about turning off auto-updates on a Mac network is here.

Google Chrome and Chromium are not auto-updated automatically on Linux; your package manager handles this.

Frequently Asked questions

A: Google Chrome on Linux does not auto-update itself; it relies on your package manager to update it.

Q: Does the open-source Chromium browser auto-update like Chrome?
No. Chromium does not have its own auto-update process, so if you are deploying Chromium, do you not need to worry about turning off auto-updates.

Q: How do I know if there is an auto-update happening soon?

A: You can subscribe to the blog at https://chromereleases.googleblog.com, which lists every dev, beta, and stable release of Google Chrome. Chromium does not auto-update.

Q: How often do auto-updates happen? How many can I expect this year?

A: Major version updates to the stable channel of Google Chrome tend to happen about every six weeks, although security fixes can come at any time. See Release Early, Release Often for more information.

Q: Do you have release notes with each version?

A: Yes, see the Chrome Enterprise Release Notes. Also, for a granular list of what's changed and links to all the fixes made, see https://chromereleases.googleblog.com.

Q: Why would I not want to turn off auto-updates?

A: Turning off auto-updates means you may miss an update that includes security fixes, leaving your users at risk.

Q: Can I turn auto-updates back on?

A: Yes. Just set the value of the registry key you changed back up to a reasonable number of minutes between update checks (greater than '0').

Q: How would I update my users without turning auto-update back on?

A: You can deploy the latest MSI, which is available here.

Q: I need auto-updates off so I can test new versions of Google Chrome / Chromium before everyone else gets them. What do you suggest I do?

A: Turn off auto-updates via the steps above, and push the group policy to your network. Then download the latest MSI here. Deploy it on your test machines, and do your verification. Once it is certified, deploy that same MSI on the rest of your network. And watch for updates on https://chromereleases.googleblog.com for new versions of the MSI to test and deploy. Enterprise customers can find additional downloads, such as ADMX templates to manage Chrome policies here.