title: Making Google Chrome leave itself alone
body: <p>Let me preface this question by saying: <strong>It's crazy. I know it is.</strong> But the requirement is not mine, it's someone else's, and I'm trying to honor it.</p>
  
  <p>I need to install a <a href="http://www.oldapps.com/index.php/google_chrome.php" rel="nofollow">months-out-of-date version of Google Chrome</a> so I can run repeated tests against it. But it's proving to be surprisingly difficult to turn Chrome updates off.</p>
  
  <p>I did the trick of disabling the "Google Update" plugin in chrome://plugins. After that, I uninstalled Chrome and installed the old version. I double-checked that the version was the old version and that updating was non-functional ("error 3").  I didn't even see "Google Update" listed in chrome://plugins at all after this. So I thought I was good.</p>
  
  <p>Then just now, I fired up Chrome to look at it again, and it was back to the newest version!</p>
  
  <p>Is there something I overlooked?  Are they doing some kind of black magic here?</p>