Prevent Google Chrome's updater from running

Apr 16, '10 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: msjulie

An earlier hint I found said to use Lingon to edit the launchd file and remove Google's updater task from the Chrome browser. It works great until the next time you run Chrome.

To foil Google/Chrome once and for all, use Lingon to disable the launchd task, and then go to your user's Library/Google folder and delete the contents of GoogleSoftwareUpdate. Not done yet -- now you must use Terminal to prevent the next launch of Chrome from re-establishing the task.

In a Terminal window, cd ~/Library/Google and type chmod 111 GoogleSoftwareUpdate. (I couldn't figure out how to use Finder to remove read/write privilege for myself on my own folder). Now the whole folder is write locked, and Chrome can't reload the software update contents, and it won't recreate the launchd task either.

Please note you now have to update Chrome yourself.

[robg adds: I'm not sure which hint the author is referring to; there aren't any here that mention Chrome and Lingon. The closest I could find was this one, which was about the updater relative to Google Earth. The section in that hint about removing the launchd files would be applicable to this hint as well.]

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