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Google Update Always Running in the Background? Not Anymore

https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-update-always-running-in.html

“Google Open Source Blog informs that Google Update, the software used by Google Chrome and other applications for automatic updates, no longer runs in the background. "Until now, Google Update would always run in the background, functioning primarily as a reliable scheduler performing update checks...” (from the page’s text)

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Quality: Quality 83 scored 12 Aug 2025
Language: english
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