Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build

Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by masklinn on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:33AM (#17969786)

> I'm tired of walking a parent through uninstalling Google Chrome (that they have no idea how it was installed)

Don't forget the bit where Chrome rams its fucking updater down your throat at every occasion and any way to disable it is only temporary.

And Chromium manages to be even worse at least on OSX: it apparently decides that being quit is unacceptable and relaunches itself hidden in the background.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by vetinari on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:54PM (#17973210)

The Google Update can be disabled (per product) via Group Policy.

If you want to manage Chrome updates on your own, use the msi installer.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by opencl on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @07:10PM (#17974357)

Is there a way to disable it on versions of Windows that lack the Local Group Policy Editor?

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by red_admiral on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:30PM (#17979888)

Group policies are just a UI for certain registry keys I think? I imagine you could do this in regedit, but I can't tell you the exact key name.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by vetinari on Thursday September 13, 2018 @07:12AM (#17977673)

No idea, sorry. There are ways to install gpedit on Windows Home, but the articles I've seen include some shady download.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by cm2187 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:06AM (#17976872)

For something that needs to be as air tight in term of security as a browser, I think it is irresponsible to disable automatic updates.

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