Watch video Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. Use one box for everything.
Update Chrome This guide will step you through the process of updating your Google Chrome web browser. Do you need to know Chrome auto-updates itself Google's Chrome web browser was the first web browser to provide automatic updates. This was something of a revolution, because prior to this, it was the user's responsibility to update their web browser. This usually meant that only the most vigilant and technically savvy users had up to date web browsers. Having an up to date web browser is vital to having a and Chrome's auto-update feature facilitates this very easily. In most cases - actually, unless you have specifically disabled it - Chrome will check for updates every couple of hours and automatically update itself. What if Chrome is not already auto-updating?
If you are being told that Chrome is out of date (our homepage will tell you if ) then in most cases you just need to wait a few hours and Chrome will auto update itself. If this doesn't occur, it's possible that:. Your computer's firewall is preventing Chrome from checking if there are updates.
Your employer has blocked Chrome from auto-updating. You (or someone else) has configured your Chrome to not auto-update Fixing these issues is beyond the scope of this article; these situations are typically rare. Updating Chrome This guide will show you how to manually trigger Chrome to check for updates and install them if they are found. The screenshots below are taken from Mac OS X, but the process is the same on Windows. Simply opening the 'About Chrome' interface is enough to trigger Chrome to check for updates and download them if there are any found. Click the 'Chrome' menu This will reveal a menu with lots of options.
One of them will be named ' About Google Chrome'. Click 'About Google Chrome' You will be taken to the About page for Chrome.
Chrome will automatically check for updates Chrome tells you ' Updating Google Chrome.' While it checks for a newer version. If Chrome finds updates, it will automatically download them - Click 'Relaunch' to install them Chrome tells you ' Updating Google Chrome.'
While it checks for a newer version of Chrome (and downloads it if one is found). When Chrome relaunches, you should be running the latest version Chrome now tells you ' Google Chrome is up to date'. Congratulations, you have now ensured that your copy of Chrome is up to date.
In normal circumstances, Chrome will keep itself up to date automatically - if for some reason Chrome didn't update itself, please speak to your IT Support team for further help.
Back in August, Google launched a, following the public release of 64-bit Chrome for Windows. After several months of testing, Google today, its first stable-release 64-bit browser for OS X. As Google said when it launched a beta version of 64-bit Chrome for Mac, 64-bit support will bring several speed and security improvements to the browser, in addition to decreasing the amount of memory that it uses. Chrome 64-bit Chrome has become faster as a result of having access to a superior instruction set, more registers, and a more efficient function calling convention. Improved opportunities for ASLR enhance this version's security. Another major benefit of this change comes from the fact that most programs on a modern Mac are already 64-bit apps. In cases where Chrome was the last remaining 32-bit app, there were launch-time and memory-footprint penalties as 32-bit copies of all of the system libraries needed to be loaded to support Chrome.
Now that Chrome's a 64-bit app too, we expect you'll find that it launches more quickly and that overall system memory use decreases.With the release of Chrome 39, the 32-bit version of Chrome will be retired, left on Chrome 38, which means that will not be able to use the new Chrome 39. Along with 64-bit support, the new Chrome update includes new apps and extension APIs, plus improvements to stability and performance. There are also 42 security fixes for various vulnerabilities, which resulted in $41,500 in bounties that Google paid out to the individuals that reported the issues.
Chrome 39 can be downloaded from or installed using the Chrome browser's built-in update functionality. Still doesn't sync iCloud tabs, still doesn't do handoff, and still doesn't bloody scroll smoothly. Meh, meh, meh.
Back to Safari for me. I've honestly no idea why anyone would ever use Chrome on OS X. 1) Testing purposes with web design etc.
2) For some people, there may be websites that (for whatever reason) do not function like they should in Safari. 3) Some people like the cross platform sync ability There are a lot of reasons. It doesn't matter whether you understand or agree with the actions of others in this regard.