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Google Chrome auto-updates itself and its extensions. I don't want Chrome to automatically update itself every time it is run; I only want it to update when it asks for confirmation, like Firefox does. Is this possible?

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Good. I did that too.

Click on Start, then "Run". Type services.msc. Enter password if necessary on Vista or later. On the Name column, find "Google Updater Service" or similar. Right click it and open Properties. For Startup Type, change it to Disabled. You may click on the Stop button as well. OK and exit all the windws and you're done.

If you want to ever update some day, follow the steps, set the startup back to Automatic, reboot AND Google Chrome will update the next time it is run.

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Thanks, I think there's no GUI option for that confirmation. BTW, will it disable auto updating extensions? – crucified soul Apr 18 '11 at 6:11
I also believe there is no confirmation using this method. Stopping the service silently keeps Chrome and other Google products (like Earth) from auto-updating. Every time you install a new google product, they will re-enable the service, so remember to disable the service again before restarting Chrome just after getting the new Google Desktop, Earth or Picasa or something. Also, I forgot that extensions update on their own --I have no fix. If you disable an extension, then it will autoupdate when you decide to re-activate it. – Vlueboy Apr 18 '11 at 6:23
Why not just set it to "Manual"? – grawity Apr 18 '11 at 12:29
@grawity, "disabled" is hardly ever changed against your orders. Manual makes it easier for you to restart at will later, but many chains of programs and services can silently just nudge parts marked "manual" to start them up as part of other tasks, and field experience shows that even Microsoft's tools leave your changes alone when you've gone and disabled things they callously touch. – Vlueboy Apr 19 '11 at 22:33
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If you are on Windows, the article Disable Automatic Update Google Chrome suggests to use regedit to go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update and create a string item named DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue and set its value to 1.

Otherwise, you could consider switching to Chromium, built upon the same sources as Chrome but with improvements, which doesn't auto-update.

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Actually, I also use ubuntu. And what I am looking for, is asking my confirmation before updating or an option for disable like firefox. Is there any extensions can do that? – crucified soul Apr 18 '11 at 6:02
No such option on Chrome, although Update Notifier does warn you after the update. You could block the update thru the firewall - I believe update is done via http://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx. You could also find the scheduled auto-update job and disable it. – harrymc Apr 18 '11 at 6:17
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Go to Start → Run… → enter msconfig → go to Startup Options → disable Google Update and restart the system.

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