Disable Google Chrome’s automatic software update

Google Chrome automatically checks for software updates in the background. If you want to disable the automatic updates to reduce data traffic, you can do this with a defaults write command.

defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0

Restart Google Chrome to make changes affect.

You can manually check for software update by executing ‘CheckForUpdatesNow.command’ in the folder:

/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/Contents/Resources/

Restore to the default setting with:

defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 18000

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