How to disable Google Chrome extension autoupdate

问题

How do I disable Google Chrome extension autoupdate?

回答1:

Solutions I found for this:

1. Disabling concrete extension update.
That's what I wanted!
You can do this by editing the extensions manifest json-file

on Windows: C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\<EXTENSION-ID>\<VERSION>\manifest.json (find out the extensions ID by enabling developer mode in the extension settings page)
on Ubuntu for Chromium: ${HOME}/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences

In this file set "update_url" property to something invalid like "https://localhost" for example. For now according to given url updating of that extension is simply impossible.

source: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/l3zOZeO-5-M/Y7VaR0KCWNIJ

2. Disabling all Google Chrome updates.

2.1. Any OS
Just type chrome://plugins/ at address bar and turn Google Update plugin off.

source: How to disable Google Chrome auto update?

2.2 Win OS
Set Registry values

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update]
"AutoUpdateCheckPeriodMinutes"=dword:00000000
"UpdateDefault"=dword:00000000

source: Making Google Chrome leave itself alone

回答2:

If the chrome extension is on Github (which many if not most of them are), you can simply:

(1.) clone the Github repo,

(2.) reset the head to the version that you want, and

(3.) enable Developer Mode at chrome://extensions/

(4.) select the "Load unpacked" option from chrome://extensions/, and then select the folder enclosing the source code for the extension.

I recently used this technique to downgrade my version of Reddit Link Opener, which no longer supports users who have opted out of using that site's redesign. This worked for me on MacOS, but should work on all platforms.

If the extension is loaded as an unpacked extension (in the manner described above), it will NOT auto-update to a newer version.

回答3:

Hi all those solitions for me have one disadvantage is that all extensions have no updates, I needed to stop only for one extension in this case and wanted al the other to keep making updates.

I think I found the solutuion for windows

Go to C:\Users\YOUR_NAME_HERE\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\YOUR_FOLDER APP HERE\

In that folder app click in properties and select read only an aplly that to all subfolders and files... for now for me solved the problem !!!

Regards xichas

回答4:

After updating Google Chrome to v60, no solution found on the Internet has helped me

So i just blocked IP addresses, used for updating, by doing following steps:

Opened Chrome with blank browser tab
Waited, until extension autoupdate begins, by looking on to network tab in Resource Monitor
Wrote out all the IP addresses with high download rate. My IP address list was:

    64.233.161.94
    64.233.161.102
    64.233.163.95
    74.125.238.132
    108.177.14.138
    173.194.73.132
    173.194.222.102
    216.58.209.110
    216.58.209.97
    173.194.222.99
    173.194.32.227
    173.194.113.172
    173.194.32.224
    195.216.237.77
    74.125.232.170
    143.215.130.61
    74.125.238.147
    173.194.122.137
    173.194.44.66
    173.194.44.67
    173.194.44.95
    173.194.122.136
    74.125.232.183
    74.125.232.171

Created outbound rule for chrome.exe in Windows Firewall and added listed IP addresses to blocklist

After I enabled this rule, chrome was unable to update my extensions.

回答5:

this is a complementary answer to the accepted one https://stackoverflow.com/a/27657703/1422630 , allowing disable all at once on chromium

this is also only for linux (may be run on windows thru cygwin tho, not tested..)

this script will

backup the prefs file,
modify it,
if didnt succeed will output "FAILED"
show the differences using meld if installed

#!/bin/bash

set -ue

strPref="$HOME/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences"
cat "$strPref" |egrep "\"update_url[^,]*," -o |sort -u
read -p "existing unique urls above..." -n 1

strBkp="${strPref}.`date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`.bkp"
if cp -v "$strPref" "$strBkp";then
  strUpdUrl="clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx" #change this if needed  #TODO should match any URL...
  sed -i -r "s@(update_url\":\"https{,1}://)(${strUpdUrl})@\1127.0.0.1@g" "$strPref"
  if grep "$strUpdUrl" "$strPref";then echo FAILED >&2;exit 1;fi

  cmdDiff=colordiff
  if which meld;then cmdDiff=meld;fi
  #$cmdDiff <(cat "$strPref" |egrep "\"update_url[^,]*," -o) <(cat "$strBkp" |egrep "\"update_url[^,]*," -o)
  $cmdDiff <(cat "$strPref" |sed -r 's@","@",\n"@g') <(cat "$strBkp" |sed -r 's@","@",\n"@g')
fi

tested on chromium: Version 63.0.3239.84 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit)

obs.: that script also works for google-chrome, just change the preferences file path

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27657617/how-to-disable-google-chrome-extension-autoupdate

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