Google Chrome Browser

Chrome sends requests via Google proxy server via SPDY. This proxy server optimizes the content (image transcoding, CSS/JavaScript compression) and compresses the output.

See also How to enable HTTP/2 on Apache.

• Go to about:plugins and disable plugin “Google Update” (if Chrome was installed not by system administrator).
• Disable “GoogleUpdateTask” in Task Scheduler.
• Remove Google Update key from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.

Some tips that may help, but there is no solution (other than stop using Chrome on Android/iOS):

• Clear cache in browser settings → privacy.
• Close other open apps.
• Set background refresh to off for Chrome in system settings.

From HTTP authentication in Chrome the following schemes are supported:

• Basic
• Digest
• NTLM
• Negotiate

Add the following arguments to Chrome startup script:

--auth-server-whitelist=* --auth-negotiate-delegate-whitelist=*

CostMin is technically not a virus, but it does exhibit plenty of malicious traits, such as rootkit capabilities to hook deep into the operating system, browser hijacking, and in general just interfering with the user experience.

• If Chrome was installed without administrative privileges, disable/remove Chrome Update extension.
• Otherwise remove this registry key:

  REGEDIT4
   
  [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
  "Google Update"="\"C:\\Users\\...\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Update\\GoogleUpdate.exe\" /c"

See also Disable auto-update of Google Chrome and How to disable Google Chrome extension autoupdate.

More or less big collections can be found at:

• Linux Debain
• Linux RPM
• Windows

Linux artifacts are mirrored at Mail.ru Cloud.

Some packages (most recent) can be found at:

• http://shersonb.net/repositories/google-chrome/
• http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=google-chrome-stable

Copy/restore file %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Extension Settings\dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo\000003.log

$ /opt/google/chrome/chrome
/opt/google/chrome/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

$ /opt/google/chrome/chrome
/opt/google/chrome/chrome: symbol lookup error: /opt/google/chrome/chrome: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Advances

$ /opt/google/chrome/chrome
Segmentation fault

• First problem can be solved by symlinking the necessary library:
  cd /lib64 && ln -s libbz2.so.1.0.5 libbz2.so.1.0
• Second problem is solved by installing Freetype library from OpenSuSE 11.4 (see also Google Chrome Forum):
  rpm -U libfreetype6-2.4.11-85.1.x86_64.rpm freetype2-devel-2.4.11-85.1.x86_64.rpm
• Third problem has no solution yet. That means v27 crashes, and v28 and later have the following dependency:
  xorg-x11-libX11 >= 7.6_1