Googleonly provides an online setup file for Google Chrome which installs the latest version of Google Chrome. It happens frequently that a user upgrades to a new version of Google Chrome and gets upset by an unpleasant feature, a missing option or an annoying bug. Therefore, some users want to roll back to an older version of Google Chrome to preserve a useful feature, option or support some legacy technology. However, is it really wise to use an out-dated verison of Google Chrome? The answer is NO since out-dated browsers usually come with security issues. A better solution to the problem is to use Slimjet browser, which runs on the latest Blink engine while offering more flexibity, features and options compared with Google Chrome. With Slimjet, we give users more choices to tune their browser to their own personal preference instead of forcing a majority style on everyone. Slimjet also integrates more features internally in the most efficient way so that you don't have to spend time dealing with unstable and resource-consuming third-party plugins. Best of all, Slimjet syncs all your Chrome data and settings via your Google account and is compatible with your favorite Chrome extensions. There is absolutely no learning curve for you to switch from Chrome to Slimjet. Give Slimjet a try now and you will never look back!
For users who insist on using an old version of Google Chrome and becoming vulnerable to security issues, you can find the right version of Google Chrome to download for your platform in the following sections.
Unfortunately, we only started to archive old versions of Chrome since Chrome 48. Chrome dropped support for Java, silverlight and other NPAPI plugins in Chrome 45. If you are looking for an old version of Chrome with support of Java, silverlight or other NPAPI plugins, you would have to use Slimjet Web Browser, which is based on Chromium and retains support of Java, silverlight and other NPAPI plugins.
The old versions of Chrome before V58 are packed as 7zip self-extracting executable. Just run the executable and extract the files under any folder on your hard drive. Then launch Google chrome with chrome.exe under the extraction folder. After V59, the archived chrome old version files are official Chrome offline installers. Just uninstall any current version of Chrome first and then run the downloaded installer. It's a one-click installer without any interactive UI.
Please notice that Chrome dropped support of XP and Vista since Chrome 50. If you are using XP and Vista, please download Chrome 49 or earlier, or download Slimjet Web Browser, which is based on Chromium and continues to support XP and Vista.
Note: Google Chrome stopped release 32-bit builds for linux since Chrome 49. If you are still using 32-bit linux and would like to be protected with the latest security patches as well, you can use Slimjet Web Browser, which is based the Chromium open source project and continues to support 32-bit linux.
Sometimes it can be just because you don't like a new update or the new version of your preferred browser. Different people have different reasons, for example, developers don't like the placement of tools and in other cases the favorite extensions might not appear so useful. In such circumstances, all you need is the same previous version. In case of Chrome, though Google doesn't provide you with any Source) to download older versions of Google Chrome, but if you are really comfortable with those you don't need to disappoint. Slimjet offers you all older version under one roof.
Google do not support any rollback to the previous versions of Chrome. But that doesn't mean, you cannot get the one. Yes, there is a simple way out to get previous version. Just uninstall your present adaptation, erasing each user's saved profile information, and then re-install the needed version. Here it is important to note that user may lose their bookmarks, history, and so on. Hence, be careful while you proceed with the same.
Now getting and downloading the prior versions of Google Chrome is possible. Slimjet share the old versions of Chrome, packed as 7zip self-extracting executable file. Download the one you need, run the executable and extract the files on your hard drive. Simply launch Google chrome with chrome.exe under the extraction folder. You can scroll above for different versions, available in 32- bit and 64- bit.
Right after running the script, I didn't check to see if the executables are running fine, because I was assuming there wouldn't be a problem with them. So, after letting the script pile up Chrome versions, just a few days ago I got a big surprise when I tried installing an older version of Chrome. None of the files downloaded by the script worked. Each time I'd try running them, I'd get "unknown installer error".
That got me curios about why isn't it working, so I accessed in Chrome and that got me a perfectly working exe. The strange thing is both exes downloaded through Chrome and curl had the same sha 512 hash.As I was puzzled, I tried wget and a powershell script.
Thanks to @John Seerden, I then used his powershell script, which downloaded a googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi working executable.Seeing this, I replaced googlechromestandaloneenterprise64.msi URL in his script with , but still got that error.
After some googling, I got across this post, which states something about getting an untagged installer, which I think has been downloaded through a 3rd party program like curl or wget, which ended in prompting "unknown installer error".
Is it there any way I could download perfectly fine running Chrome executables through a script or is it there any way to fix the broken executables?I would prefer to not resort to something like headless Chrome.
I then ran the resulting exe (patched exe, having version 86.0.4240.111 64 bits) in a fresh Windows 7 virtual machine (VM), and this time it installed correctly. For testing purposes, I turned off the network, and, when going to the 3 dotted menu in Chrome > Help > About Chrome, indeed, Chrome was the old version. After that, I turned on network and it had been updating to the latest version, 87.0.4280.66 64 bits, running with no problems.
Even though ChromeStandaloneSetup64_valid_Copy_latest_version.exe (valid exe) came with a Zone Identifier Alternate Data Stream (ADS), unlike the broken exe, the resulting exe coming out the broken exe, lacking ADS, it ran perfectly fine in the VM. Regarding ADS, I downloaded the same valid Chrome exe twice (87.0.4280.66 64 bits) and I noticed the ADS had the same exact value.
Next thing I did was going to -random-data-from-regexp and generating a random appguid and iid (using hexadecimal values, because that's what I noticed it was being used in those fields) using this pattern:
So, since the appguid and iid were coming from a later version of Chrome (appguid and iid taken from 87.0.4280.66 and inserted into 86.0.4240.111), I assume, installation will finish successfully only if the appguid and iid contained in the exe itself, through computation during instalation, will yield a result that matches a value stored somewhere in the exe, or a value that also gets computed during installation. I say this, because when I installed the resulting valid standalone Chrome exe coming from the broken exe, the network was turned off, and there was no prior installation of Chrome on that system. Or maybe those two values are somehow tied to the operating system.
I conclusion, I think I'll end up modifing the URLs in the batch file with those appguid and iid, unless I decide to take a closer look at the URLs of the upcoming releases of Chrome to get an even better idea of how all of this is working.
I initially tried pushing the newest version of chrome to these with HCL BigFix, but the patch upgrade failed. Upon further inspection of these systems, I discovered this issue. I tried to run the chrome standalone enterprise installer for the latest version the systems, however the installer just spits back the below error:
Brave browser is the only browser (apart from chrome and edge) that doesnt provide the links or option to download offline package or installer or version info clearly on the first screen so that user knows which version they are downloading.
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:
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