Scorbing Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Download If you have been using Google Chrome from day one of its release then you might know that Google Chrome wasn?t available as standalone installer and requires to download web installer which in turn requires active internet connection to download & install Chrome on your machine. The situation is even worst for IT admin since the standalone version of Google Chrome is as of now only available as executable which can only be installed manually on each and every machine. Finally Google is addressing this issue and have released first Google Chrome Standalone Enterprise edition which comes as windows installer package ( .MSI installer package). Now system admins and network admins can perform wide and remote deployments tasks which weren?t possible with the old releases of Chrome. The new Chrome Standalone Windows Installer Package (.MSI) is suited to a range of scenarios including offline installations, unattended installations, deploying the browser over a network share or from remote locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhav Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Good news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Anarkii Subscriber² Posted August 13, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted August 13, 2010 Great news. Hopefully IT Admins will get rid of IE once and for all from their machines now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 About bloody time too. Never bothered me personally as I use Chromium nightlies, but in the office... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorbing Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 I just downloaded it and installed it. Looks great. Is it me or those it look different than the regular version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Great news. Hopefully IT Admins will get rid of IE once and for all from their machines now. Not so easy, a lot of applications and plug-ins are designed and work with IE only. It's too costly, especially in these times, to re-design or re-write web applications for companies to consider. I could see it being used as a secondary browser, but not totally taking over IE in a corporate env. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yxz Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 If you have been using Google Chrome from day one of its release then you might know that Google Chrome wasn?t available as standalone installer and requires to download web installer which in turn requires active internet connection to download & install Chrome on your machine. ??? http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?standalone=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliott Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 ??? http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?standalone=1 Yea, I think the standalone has been around for a while. However, the MSI installer is new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJGM Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 At least this installer puts the installation in the correct location ... within Program Files ... where it should also be installed by the regular net installer. No software should EVER be installed where user data is meant to go. That, and the rendering engine, are the only good things about it though. The GUI is still too over simplified (or dumbed down) ... the Home button seems to have been removed - bad idea ... still no Menu bar, or an option to show a Menu Bar for those of us that prefer to have a standard selection of options, rather than a small handful of cherry-picked options under a button at the far end of the Location Bar. While Firefox may dumbing down it's default GUI for it's 4th incarnation, at least it can be customised to look more a proper internet browser, rather than something more suitable for a public internet kiosk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrCheese Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 It's a start, but it will be ignored until they come out with a proper group policy adm that allows total control over the browser, i.e the ability to set and lock things like proxy servers, updates, default home page/favourites and so on. That said, I still don't see this really being deployed in companies. IE works, regardless of what it's detractors say and it makes no sense for an IT department to support more than one browser when the built in one does 99% of what a business requires it's employees to use a browser for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorbing Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 I personally hate that web installer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted August 13, 2010 Member Share Posted August 13, 2010 I personally hate that web installer. Me too. Glad to see a standalone one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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