Chrome on Ubuntu: Install it now, show interest in promoting companies to write Linux software!

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Dotan Cohen<dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I too would rather support the open chromium project than the Google
>> product which can update software on my machine without my say so or
>> knowledge....
> Are you kidding? The PPA can "update software on your machine without
> your say so knowledge". I don't care what security flaws Windows has
> and Google exploits, can you provide documentation that the Linux
> version can "update software on your machine without your say so
> knowledge"?

I had a discussion with the maintainer of the chromium package.
As I understand it, the Google version for linux is consistent with
the Windows version in that Chrome updates are pushed and accepted
without user intervention.

Please see Googles own documention for confirmation
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95414

The PPA version instead updates daily using the standard apt system.

Brian

-- 
All you need to know about Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty -> gconftool -s --type
bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false