[masklinn]

> I'm tired of walking a parent through uninstalling Google Chrome (that they have no idea how it was installed)

Don't forget the bit where Chrome rams its fucking updater down your throat at every occasion and any way to disable it is only temporary.

And Chromium manages to be even worse at least on OSX: it apparently decides that being quit is unacceptable and relaunches itself hidden in the background.

[vetinari]

The Google Update can be disabled (per product) via Group Policy.

If you want to manage Chrome updates on your own, use the msi installer.

[opencl]

Is there a way to disable it on versions of Windows that lack the Local Group Policy Editor?

[red_admiral]

Group policies are just a UI for certain registry keys I think? I imagine you could do this in regedit, but I can't tell you the exact key name.

[vetinari]

No idea, sorry. There are ways to install gpedit on Windows Home, but the articles I've seen include some shady download.

[cm2187]

For something that needs to be as air tight in term of security as a browser, I think it is irresponsible to disable automatic updates.