How can I upgrade to Chrome 42.0.2311.90?

Question

Google Chrome on my machine recently updated to version v44. I work with Selenium WebDriver in Chrome, and as soon as I update Chrome, all my tests are a thing of the past. I am using Chromedriver v2.16. My partner PC has Chrome v42.0.2311.90 and Chromedriver v2.16. And the tests work well on his machine. Now, based on this, I'm sure the problem is probably not in Chromedriver.

So how can I upgrade to Chrome 42.0.2311.90?

I tried using the offline installer from here: Google Chrome Alternate Offline Installer But this always gives me the latest version to install ie v44.

The release I need can be found here: Google Chrome v42.0.2311.90 Stable Channel Update

Answer 1

• Uninstall the current version of chrome.
• Delete all Chrome data for the current version: C: \ Users \ username \ AppData \ Local \ Google \ Chrome
• Download your version from chrome_installer .
• Disable chrome updates using the instructions in this link .

Answer 2

The following steps will help you install your preferred version of Chrome:

1 - Uninstall the current version of Chrome.

2 - Download the correct version of Google Chrome: Google Chrome Download

3 - Restart the computer once, so if any registry file or temp saved in the previous Google Chrome, it will be updated.

4 - Install the downloaded Google Chrome. And then turn off the automatic update of chrome.

Answer 3

I struggled with the same problem on a Mac, trying to downgrade and stay downgraded from Chrome 53 to 52 due to a serious bug affecting webaudio.

No other recommendation applies generally (or at least on Mac OS X). The application is trying to update itself, and there is no way to configure it using the "Chrome-friendly" method.

In the end, I resorted to force ...

• Close and uninstall Chrome

• Edit the / etc / hosts file to prevent checking for updates due to overriding the DNS record:

  0.0.0.0 tools.google.com

• Find and download the old version. It remains as an exercise, it was actually hard and fraught with fear of bad binaries. I was able to cross-reference MD5 from one site that had no downloads with another, which had downloads.

• Install and run the old version
• Important: check the About page and point and laugh so that Chrome tries to register.

Answer 4

Here's how you can use an earlier version of chrome "generally":

• Remove the current chrome
• Install the desired version of chrome.
• DO NOT open chrome !! after installation
• Instead, turn off automatic updates, for example here or here
• Only then can you work with your desired version of the Chrome browser

How to get a specific older version:

You need google, search forums or try sites like this . It’s just “rough work” to find the version you are looking for. If you're very unlucky, the version you need may not even be around.

Answer 5

If you are working on a Windows computer, you can use the package manager chocolate, that's how I do it with Jenkins, we call powershell, which removes the previous version and installs the specific one: from the ide script, you need to install modules for chocolate, which is a small price which will be of great benefit:

 choco install googlechrome --version 62.0.3202.94 -y 

Then, to prevent Chrome from updating itself, I follow these steps: 1. Check the current version of Chrome.

 (Get-Item (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe').'(Default)').VersionInfo 

2. Install the version I'm aiming for:

choco install googlechrome --version 62.0.3202.94 -y

You can find the available versions here:

https://chocolatey.org/packages/GoogleChrome

(Find the version history section)

3. Kill GoogleCrashHandler.exe in either 32 or 64 bit variant, or both.

4. Delete directories C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update and C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\CrashReporter

You will lose the ability to automatically update (which is the whole right of the target) and you will lose the ability to send crash reports and copy this executable file to update its will when Google finds it convenient.

5.Disable Chrome Services