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Google updates Chrome with major new versions every 6 weeks and security patches more than frequently than that. Chrome ordinarily downloads updates automatically but 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 all the same demand to restart your browser to perform the installation. Considering some people proceed Chrome open for days—maybe even weeks—the update could be idly waiting to install, putting your computer at risk.

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In Chrome on Windows, Mac, or Linux, click the three-dot menu icon in the pinnacle-correct corner, hover your mouse cursor over "Help," and select "Virtually Google Chrome." You can as well blazon chrome://settings/aid into Chrome'due south location box and printing Enter.

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

Chrome volition check for whatever updates and immediately download them equally before long as you open the About Google Chrome page.

If Chrome has already downloaded and is waiting to install an update, the menu icon will modify to an upward arrow and take on 1 of three colors, depending on how long the update has been available:

  • Greenish: An update has been bachelor for two days
  • Orangish: An update has been bachelor for four days
  • Scarlet: An update has been bachelor for seven days

Google Chrome begins to update

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

Warning: Make sure you salvage anything you're working on in any open tabs. Chrome reopens the open tabs after the relaunch but doesn't save any of the information independent in them.

To complete the update process, click Relaunch

If you'd rather wait to restart Chrome and cease upwards the work you're doing, close the About Google Chrome tab. Chrome will install the update the next time you shut and reopen it.

When you relaunch Chrome, and the update finally finishes installing, caput back to chrome://settings/help and verify you're running the latest version of Chrome. Chrome volition say "Google Chrome is up to appointment" if you'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 nearly identical.

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