How does the Chrome browser get updated?

My son works on Chrome mobile. If now one else knows, I can e-mail him the question.

Yes, automatically. It checks once upon starting a session, and if it sees the need for an update, it queues it. Then, when your browser is idle, it installs it, without any fuss. Doesn’t tell you.

Very convenient.

Yes, I actually just looked at the top bar and there was a red icon on the the top right that told me that there was an update that would load upon relaunching Chrome. I did and it did.

Why not use Firefox? Using a browser made by the biggest advertising/tracking company in the world seems foolish.

@johnpowell I do plan to use Firefox also. I used it several years ago, but what I did not like about it was that I had to manually install updates once or twice every week! Has this changed? Can the update be automatic, like described above for Chrome?

@janbb @elbanditoroso Thanks for the info.

No, in Firefox you have to manually update it. It is a button you press and it does it for you. You don’t have to visit a site and download something and run a installer. Seriously, it will let you know there is a update and then you click a few things and Firefox restarts and restores your session.

I’m super jaded.. I consider Chrome malware.

Thanks, @johnpowell. I’ll give Firefox a try!

If you install Firefox please install this.

It will make the internet so much faster and better.

@johnpowell What’s the best place to get Firefox from?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Are we talking desktop or mobile?

The link above should work for both.

Both. Thanks, @johnpowell!!

I have been using Firefox for about 15 years. Mozilla has sane defaults.

When my mom got out of prison she got a Windows 2000PRO box and was constantly compromised to the point I was doing a re-install once a month. She was using IE 6.

I told her it was 50 bucks to fix her shit unless she switched to Firefox. She did and I never got got money from her again.

@johnpowell LOL

I completely agree with @johnpowell . i use Firefox with an ad and tracker blocker. It works great.
I will try the blocker he recommended above.

I use Chrome with an AdBlocker and tracker and have great success with that.