Why Are Automatic Updates Annoying?Īutomatic updates are good to have your browser safe and secure. Even it does not have an auto-update on the Linux platform. It is only Google Chrome that has this on Windows and Mac. You need to note that the open-source Chromium browser does not necessarily have an auto-update feature. For instance, you can go to the settings of Chrome, and you will see the auto-update will starts immediately. The auto-update also runs whenever you go to some of the settings pages. Automatic updates run and check for the latest version whenever you connect to the internet with 5 hours frequency.
How Does Auto Update Functions In Chrome?Ĭhrome uses the Google update feature that in turn uses an open-source program known as Omaha for auto-updating. In this blog, we will see how to disable silent updates in Chrome for Windows and the automatic updates on Mac. However, the automatic update is still one annoying feature forced on the users.
Google introduced additional alternatives for disabling the bookmarks bar and remove the favicons with version 69. However, Google forces some features on Chrome, like no option to remove the bookmarks bar and not possible to remove favicons on the new tab page. Chrome is one of the most powerful browsers used by nearly 65% of the population worldwide.
