Google Chrome Has the Most Effective Updater
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Silent updates can be good if two things happen: 1. The update does not force me to restart the program or my system immediately 2. The update does not adversely affect anything So far, Chrome hasn't caused any problems when it updates. That said, it would be really nice if it would at least tell me when it has updated... Ed
I agree. But additionally I would like to be able to turn it off if I want to. Easy rollback to the previous version in case of problems would be nice too. I currently use Dev Express's Refactor! Pro. It doesn't have automatic updates but in their client center they do keep an easily accessible list of previous versions so I can roll back (which I did recently as a matter of fact). I also think silent updates should be confined to security and bug fixes, not new features. But Google include the latter (though so far the stable version of Chrome has been just bug fixes if I'm not mistaken). Having said that I've not gone so far as to remove Chrome because of its non-configurable silent updates like others in this thread have. That's mainly because 1. Chrome isn't my default browser and 2. updates seem to have been harmless so far. Were they to create "collateral damage" my policy would change. :) A long time ago Microsoft said that their service packs were going to be changed so that they were pure bug fixes. Sometimes they are but in general they've not stuck to that.
Kevin
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Yes, Windows still has some basic usability flaws. The most annoying is failing to honour the active application when another one is launching. So you're typing away and then find you're suddenly typing in the new app! :mad: This was supposed to have been fixed in XP but seems only to work about a quarter of a time. I don't know whether this has been fixed in Vista or Windows 7?
Kevin
Arghhh! I hate that. You'd think they could detect when you're in a text box, and if so, don't let another window take focus. Very painful. Now that you bring it up, I can't remember this happening on Vista, so maybe they did fix it.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
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You can. Go into Windows task scheduler, delete the Google Updater task. Frankly, I think some techies are too paranoid. I don't mind Google Chrome updating itself automatically, just as I have no problem with Gmail or Yahoo mail updating automatically.
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Judah Himango wrote:
delete the Google Updater task
Configurability should be in the app. itself like in Firefox. I don't mind Chrome's auto-updating as it happens, but I'd still prefer to have configurability. Web apps. are different in that they don't run on your PC so they're unlikely to cause collateral damage on your PC. However, I don't operate a blanket policy of "it auto-updates so I'll uninstall it," as some here do. I look at each case on its merits.
Kevin
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Judah Himango wrote:
delete the Google Updater task
Configurability should be in the app. itself like in Firefox. I don't mind Chrome's auto-updating as it happens, but I'd still prefer to have configurability. Web apps. are different in that they don't run on your PC so they're unlikely to cause collateral damage on your PC. However, I don't operate a blanket policy of "it auto-updates so I'll uninstall it," as some here do. I look at each case on its merits.
Kevin
There should be a way to do it from inside the app, yes. But let's not call it non-configurable.
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Web apps. are different in that they don't run on your PC so they're unlikely to cause collateral damage on your PC.
Given that Chrome installs into a non-protected directory and doesn't require any admin rights to update, I no longer buy this argument.
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
However, I don't operate a blanket policy of "it auto-updates so I'll uninstall it," as some here do. I look at each case on its merits.
That's a good way to do it.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango