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One of my favorite features in Google Chrome is the way it updates itself in the background, without annoying popups and confirmation dialogs, sometimes even without making us realize it is updating.

But in recent versions Google Chrome now shows a little orange dot next to the wrench button, to tell us we need to restart the browser to complete the update. For me, personally, this is a little annoying, because it makes me want to restart the application even if I'm currently working on a dozen Chrome windows. Basically I just want the orange dot to disappear.

I don't want to waste time restarting the browser and especially I don't want to waste any time thinking about restarting the browser.

My question is, is the orange dot optional? Is it possible to hide it somehow, make it so that it never appears and the updates keep coming without me being notified?

I can assure that this is not a big deal for me. If I cannot hide the orange dot, I can surely live with that.

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When I first started noticing this, I thought it was only for 'critcial' updates but as it turns out, it's for every update they release. I never close Chrome so it becomes a pain for me too. – qroberts Oct 25 '10 at 14:42
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Apart from grabbing the code & altering it yourself, there's no way to hide this. I can't find any extensions as well.

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You're quite weird but google-chrome has chromium open source so you can open and edit the code then compile it yourself :)

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not weird, just curious :) – djeidot Oct 22 '10 at 15:31
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Update to remove icon.

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Umm.. what? This isn't an answer. – qroberts Oct 25 '10 at 14:40
If it wouldn't be against all rules and everything I believe in, I'd upvote this just because of the nonsense it is. @qroberts: I had to laugh when I read your comment. :) – Bobby Oct 25 '10 at 14:47
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