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Google updates Chrome with major new versions every six weeks and security patches more frequently than that. Chrome normally downloads updates automatically only won't automatically restart the browser to install them. Here's how to immediately check for updates and install them.

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How to Update Google Chrome

While Google Chrome downloads and prepares updates in the background, you even so need to restart your browser to perform the installation. Considering some people proceed Chrome open for days—maybe fifty-fifty weeks—the update could be idly waiting to install, putting your computer at gamble.

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In Chrome on Windows, Mac, or Linux, click the three-dot bill of fare icon in the top-correct corner, hover your mouse cursor over "Assistance," and select "About Google Chrome." You can too type chrome://settings/aid into Chrome'south location box and press Enter.

Click More, point to Help, then click on About Google Chrome

Chrome will check for any updates and immediately download them as soon as y'all open the Near Google Chrome page.

If Chrome has already downloaded and is waiting to install an update, the bill of fare icon volition alter to an upwardly arrow and accept on one of three colors, depending on how long the update has been available:

  • Dark-green: An update has been available for two days
  • Orange: An update has been bachelor for four days
  • Ruby-red: An update has been available for seven days

Google Chrome begins to update

After the update has been installed—or if information technology's been waiting for a few days—click "Relaunch" to finish the update process.

Alert: Brand sure you save anything you're working on in any open up tabs. Chrome reopens the open tabs after the relaunch simply doesn't save whatsoever of the information contained in them.

To complete the update process, click Relaunch

If you'd rather wait to restart Chrome and finish upwardly the work you're doing, close the Virtually Google Chrome tab. Chrome volition install the update the side by side time you close and reopen it.

When you relaunch Chrome, and the update finally finishes installing, head back to chrome://settings/assistance and verify you're running the latest version of Chrome. Chrome will say "Google Chrome is upwards to date" if you lot've already installed the latest updates.

Chrome is now up to date with the most recent version

Looking for how to update your Chromebook? The process is nigh identical.

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