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Old 12-10-2013, 04:33 AM   #291
Graham
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze View Post
How easy is it to tell Chrome not to update?
Hard. I found this:

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Originally Posted by Jay Lee
I don't really recommend this for many reasons but if you're in developer mode and drop to a root shell you can run:

initctl stop update-engine

this will need to be run on each boot (or run automatically on your system). You can also create a file /mnt/stateful_partition/etc/lsb-release and add the lines:

CHROMEOS_RELEASE_VERSION=9999.9999.9999.9999
GOOGLE_RELEASE=9999.9999.9999.9999

which tells the update engine that you're running a much newer version (a lie) and you don't need to update.
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