Macos – How to disable automatic updates of Google Chrome on Mac OS X

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I rebooted my machine (Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 15G31) and re-opened Google Chrome version 69.0.3497.92 (Official Build) (64-bit). It took me to the newly-updated version of the browser. When I went to Chrome -> Help -> About Google Chrome, I accidentally clicked on the "Automatically update for all users across all devices" line, and it changed to "Automatic updates are turned on". I don't want to automatically update Chrome across all of my devices. I can't see any place to turn this setting off. What do I do??

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Best Answer

Depends how you setup auto update. If it's for you only:

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, then just:

sudo chmod -R 000 ~/Library/Google

To revert it back: 

sudo chmod -R 755 ~/Library/Google

If it's for all users:

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Then you can change permission as above for /Library/Google/ or even remove it completely.

sudo rm -rf /Library/Google/

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depending on choosing method.

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