Standalone Offline Installer for Google Chrome

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Standalone Offline Installer for Google Chrome

When you download the setup for Google Chrome's site, you're only downloading the installer for Google Updater. The updater downloads Google Chrome's full setup and then installs the software. Here's an excerpt from a Squid report:

12/29/2008-13:42:29 http://dl.google.com/update2/1.2.131.27/GoogleUpdateSetup.exe
12/29/2008-13:42:29 http://dl.google.com/update2/1.2.131.27/clickonce_bootstrap.exe
12/29/2008-13:42:35 http://cache.pack.google.com/chrome/install/154.36/chrome_installer.exe

But sometimes you can't install the auto-updating software or you need to perform an offline install of the software. To solve these issues, Google Chrome started to offer a standalone installer.

Google notes that "the version of Google Chrome available from the link below may not auto-update to future browser releases, meaning you could miss important security fixes and feature improvements. If you install Google Chrome using the link below, bookmark this page and check back periodically to manually download newer releases." When I installed Chrome using the offline setup, Google added the auto-updating service.

Labels: Google Chrome, Google Update

9 comments ( Post a comment )

Varun said on March 1, 2009 7:05 AM PDT:

I believe, the offline installer will be more useful for the computers behind firewalls in most cases. In such cases, the auto-updating feature will not work...

Varun

Hunnter said on March 1, 2009 11:22 AM PDT:

I've been using the standalones mainly for testing, or for having a separate browser with the same feature-set for other things.

Mainly i do this so i can have the windows save the Windowed locations separately for certain websites.
Also for browsing on other sites i don't consider as safe as the ones i usually do, or in case it potentially crashes the whole browser (which hasn't happened ever since the whole %: thing anyway)

But funny thing, i did have to use the standalone one day because i screwed up my beta 2 install.
It wouldn't install the v1 Chrome because i screwed up the directories.
Eventually i figured out it saved registry entries for the auto-updater, so i had to delete the registry entries and directories.
Worked after that.

Anonymous said on March 1, 2009 5:51 PM PDT:

Thank you...

devblog said on March 11, 2009 12:23 PM PDT:

This is awesome, really Google Rocks! Thanks for sharing this to the entire Web World

nitin646 said on March 20, 2009 7:54 AM PDT:

i was finding the same

Anonymous said on April 7, 2009 9:41 AM PDT:

offline installer is much batter thansk

drake said on May 14, 2009 1:30 AM PDT:

thanks. i was looking for this.

Anonymous said on May 22, 2009 4:26 AM PDT:

Great for network distribution.

Anonymous said on September 1, 2009 7:24 PM PDT:

Is there a chance that the offline installer be updated to the most update version 2.0.172.43? It seems that current version 2.0.172.28 have the proxy problem which still unless to me in my environment.

What do you think?