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issue 835863



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Chrome will nag 10.9 users to update, but they won't be able to

Project Member Reported by borisv@chromium.org, Apr 20 2018

Issue description

Chrome Version: v65+
OS: MacOS 10.9

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) On MacOS 10.9 install the latest Chrome available for that platform (v65).
(2) Move your system date 3 months ahead
(3) Launch Chrome

What is the expected result?
Chrome does not nag about being outdated.

What happens instead?
Chrome complains that it is outdated and the user needs to check for updates. But when the user does that, the no available updates are reported.

Root cause: Chrome checks the age of its build and if it finds that the installed build is more than 12 weeks old, it shows that message. This is controllable by "OutdatedBuildDetector" feature, so we may simply disable this feature remotely through Finch experiment applicable to all macOS 10.9 users.



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us identify the root cause and more rapidly triage the issue.

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page at the end of this report.


 
Contacted markchang@ to handle the launch process for this - once we have a launch bug I'll do the fieldtrial switch.
Blocking: 835863
Did this happen?
No, not yet. I'm chatting with the Finch folks about how to properly target only 10.9.

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