The installers provide advantages to both the user and Google but also some disadvantages. On the positive side, whenever you run the installer, the latest version of Google Chrome gets downloaded and installed.
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Offline or full Chrome installers are linked to a specific version which may be outdated. While that is not the end of the world thanks to Chrome's automatic updating system, it still means that you will have to check for updates on first launch to make sure the latest version is installed.
Google benefits from net installers as well as it gets more data about the installation process. The installer requires an Internet connection and Google gets data during installation such as the date of installation, information about the system or if the installation fails.
Downsides to net installers are that you cannot install them on offline machines, that you may run into issues installing them on devices with slow Internet connections, and that net installers are not ideal if you want to install the browser on multiple machines as you would download it for each device individually instead of just once.
A click on the download button downloads the full version of the selected Chrome edition to your system. The file has a size of nearly 50 Megabytes and highlights that it is the full version of Chrome in its name as well.
The installer does not require an Internet connection during setup so that you may install it without having to worry about being connected to the Internet and about the stability of the Internet connection.
I followed the link from Neowin to =true&standalone=1&platform=win64 and downloaded the file which was supposed to be for the 64 bit version 109 of Chrome but when I went to install it on my other Windows 7 computer, it tried to go online and download the browser and install it and the installation failed. I connected that computer to the internet and the same thing happened. I believe the download was for the newest version which will not install on Windows 7. The file I downloaded was around 75 MB.
I have been running Chrome on this Windows 7 computer for years and it works just fine. I just can't get any updates for it which is fine with me but I'd like to get Chrome on the other computer so I can use my bookmarks and other files.
Hello,
Sometimes the Neowin articles link to the direct version of a program, and sometimes they link to a hotlink that downloads the latest version of a program. It depends on how the software developer releases the program for download.
Since you did not mention the exact build of version 109 of Google Chrome's web browser nor provide a link to Neowin's article in question, it is a bit difficult to find the specific build you might have been trying to download. I did find this Neowin article from the beginning of 2023: Google Chrome 109.0.5414.120 (offline installer) which might be the build you were looking for, but I'm not certain. I believe that is the last build of version 109, as the next build of the Google Chrome web browsers for Windows (at least that I am aware of) is version 110.0.5481.77. Since Google does not seem to provide a copy of this old version for download anymore, you will likely have to keep searching until you find a copy of it.
I did some additional searching and came up with the following:
With all of that said, I would be remiss if I didn't caution you about the risk of connecting a computer with an end of life operating system to the Internet. Support for Windows 7 ended in January 2020, which is a five years ago.
Microsoft Windows 10 came out eight years ago in 2015, and its hardware requirements were very similar to Windows 7, so a computer that could run Windows 7 decently should have no problem running Windows 10 today, which is a modern, more secure operating system that will receive security updates until at least October 2025. You will also be able to run a current version of Google's Chrome web browser on it, with all of the security updates that have come out since version 109 of that web browser was last released. That would be a far safer and more secure way to access the internet from your computer today then continuing to use Windows 7 paired with an old version of a web browser.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
If you visited the website when version 109 was initially available, then you will get version 109... What you need to do now is to download version 109 elsewhere and not from the Google download page...
I tried the old versions link yesterday but the download link does not work. I'm downloading the slimline file now but it's not the 109 version. I found a link for the 109 version yesterday and downloaded and installed it but it's in Russian or some other language that I don't understand.
One of the links above led me to a download of this file (109.0.5414.120_chrome_installer.exe) so I uninstalled the Russian version and installed this one. This download was the exact same file with a different file name.
I searched on Google and found out how to change the language from Russian to English so everything works fine. I transferred all my bookmarks, extensions and passwords so I'm all set. Thanks for everyone's input.
ex. I put 109.0.5414.120_chrome_installer.exe on the c:\temp\ folder, so I run "c:\temp\109.0.5414.120_chrome_installer.exe --system-level" from either the Run dialog box or from the windows command prompt [cmd.exe], which will install the browser to the \Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application folder.
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