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From: N4469P on 31 Dec 2009 13:21 On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:14:13 -0600, blacky wrote: > Wheel <tyre(a)hub.axle> wrote in > news:7t4%m.17592$jj1.13329(a)newsfe12.ams2: > >> Bear Bottoms wrote: >>> Wheel <tyre(a)hub.axle> wrote in >>> news:s93%m.17581$jj1.9330(a)newsfe12.ams2: >>> >>>> I can not understand your tenacious insistence that I have >>>> installed the .zip version of the application. >>>> >>> >>> Because when I unzip the file and run the chrome.exe it brings up >>> an install window. >> >> I'll just have to accept; that is your situation. >> > I experienced precisely what you did. sew we have a consortium, Bottoms has terds in his head.
From: Wheel on 31 Dec 2009 15:16 blacky wrote: > Wheel <tyre(a)hub.axle> wrote in > news:7t4%m.17592$jj1.13329(a)newsfe12.ams2: > >> Bear Bottoms wrote: >>> Wheel <tyre(a)hub.axle> wrote in >>> news:s93%m.17581$jj1.9330(a)newsfe12.ams2: >>> >>>> I can not understand your tenacious insistence that I have >>>> installed the .zip version of the application. >>>> >>> Because when I unzip the file and run the chrome.exe it brings up >>> an install window. >> I'll just have to accept; that is your situation. >> > I experienced precisely what you did. I'll see if my post to Bear Bottoms is accepted. Thanks.
From: Wheel on 31 Dec 2009 16:08 Bear Bottoms wrote: > Bear Bottoms <REMOVEbearbottoms1(a)gmail.com> wrote in > news:Xns9CF282D6D9821bearbottoms1gmailcom(a)69.16.185.247: > >> Very strange behavior though. > > Running Chrome.exe also causes a new folder named 1.3.4.0 of virtually the > same size as the folder 1.3.3.0 > > Very strange goings on indeed. > That's because you have allowed it to upgrade to the current version v1.3.4.0
From: Bob Adkins on 31 Dec 2009 16:14 On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:46:04 GMT, Bear Bottoms <REMOVEbearbottoms1(a)gmail.com> wrote: >hummingbird <hummingb�rd(a)127.0.0.1> wrote in >news:1d5b5363cdcaade7e9ff9e913ee5153f(a)aracari.127.0.0.1: > >> Do you know if this zipped version is a portable version of >> ChromePlus or does it just have an installer inside?: >> >> http://www.chromeplus.org/update/ChromePlus1.3.3.0.zip >> >> > >It is an upgrade installer. Actually, it's portable Bear. I just unzip it to any folder and run it.
From: Wheel on 31 Dec 2009 17:54
Bear Bottoms wrote: > Wheel <tyre(a)hub.axle> wrote in news:Kp8%m.17601$jj1.9941(a)newsfe12.ams2: > >> Bear Bottoms wrote: >>> Bear Bottoms <REMOVEbearbottoms1(a)gmail.com> wrote in >>> news:Xns9CF282D6D9821bearbottoms1gmailcom(a)69.16.185.247: >>> >>>> Very strange behavior though. >>> Running Chrome.exe also causes a new folder named 1.3.4.0 of >>> virtually the same size as the folder 1.3.3.0 >>> >>> Very strange goings on indeed. >>> >> That's because you have allowed it to upgrade to the current >> version v1.3.4.0 >> > > I did nothing other than run the chrome.exe...the rest it did on its own. > Even your comments are strange to me. I didn't ALLOW anything. There are > reasons why these things are happening...certainly, but you resist my > comments until deathly proven then relent. Go with it...the events as I > described them since our first discussion of this are factual. > > Let me retrace for you. > 1. Unzip to a folder > 2. Place a file named First Run (no extension) in the folder with > chrome.exe > 3. Put the entire folder on a USB stick > 4. Ran chrome.exe on a computer that never had chrome installed on it. > > The browser opened, but a folder 1.3.4.0 and file new_chrome.exe was > created when chrome.exe was run. > > I closed the browser and reopened it. A file named old_chrome.exe > replaced the file new_chrome.exe > > No dialog boxes were offered. > I do not allow any program to call out when first run until I do some configuring. Auto-Update is set by default, which tends to execute as soon as the program is loaded. I configure and run my machine in a very restricted manner and will not allow this program to auto-update itself. All I can say is: Since the start of this exchange the program has been updated, as can be verified on the site. I assume the folder 1.3.4.0 and the replacement of the executable is related to this. I won't go there. You must know I'm a bit of a tweaker, hence, preferring highly configurable programs that can be integrated into my system or tight single purpose utilities. I don't like 'Chrome', it's too big and not easily controlled, preferring 'Opera Portable', which is smaller, just as fast, and has modes of operation that compliment my main browser. I only entertained 'ChromePlus' for reasons already stated; it will soon be discarded. Because we operate our machines differently, all I can say is it hasn't happened to me. |