Seemingly impossible to downgrade Chrome
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rpbi...@gmail.com,
Sep 7 2016
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Issue descriptionChrome Version : 52.0.2743.116 URLs (if applicable) : N/A OS version : 10.11.6 (15G31) This isn't really a bug report, but something that I consider a major UX flaw. The problem is that it's seemingly impossible to downgrade Chrome versions because the auto updater runs automatically and as of yet I've been unable to find a way to turn it off. I understand (and appreciate) the desire to keep Chrome as up to date as possible for everyone, but there are sometimes legitimate reasons to run a previous version of a web browser, and power users who know what they're doing shouldn't be prevented from doing so. For reference, I'm trying to downgrade to 52 to work around this chromedriver bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=1484&can=1&start=0&num=100&q=tab&colspec=ID%20Status%20Pri%20Owner%20Summary&groupby=&sort= Thanks.
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Sep 13 2016
Thanks for your report. Old versions of Chrome (older than current stable) are not shipped or supported. It's not likely that we will provide a supported path to downgrade to these non-supported versions. You may want to look at: https://www.chromium.org/administrators/turning-off-auto-updates https://www.chromium.org/administrators/frequently-asked-questions Note, in particular, that downgrading Chrome *may* cause profile data loss, since version N is not necessarily capable of handling a profile written by version N + 1.
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Sep 13 2016
Thanks for the response. Regarding your first link, turning off auto updates: there seems to be no way to turn off auto updates on Mac (I had to follow the instructions in this answer, which I have no doubt is an unsupported workflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/35939105/1953740) If that's something that *should* be supported, I can open another issue. Also, I have to say that the attitude of all past versions being unsupported seems very user-unfriendly. Am I to understand that the position of the Chrome team is that if a new version of Chrome has bugs that irreparably break certain supported workflows that are relied upon by a number of users, those users are expected to switch to a different browser rather than trying to use a past version of Chrome? |
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Comment 1 by elawrence@chromium.org
, Sep 7 2016