22 July, 2011

Chromium Updater

I have been using Martin Endres' Chromium Updater for quite a while, but last month the program stopped working because of URL changes for continuous and snapshot channel. Only a couple scripts were posted since to keep Chromium updated. With the source code unavailable, I decided to start from scratch to learn, but looking for ideas from similar tools.

The Chromium Updater executable can be downloaded here below.
chromiumupdater.zip (32bit)
size: 6650byte
md5sum: 7957845c1f7199c3904cfcfb471da110
sha1sum: a377cf533e5823b2c993afb9822607cd47fa1575

Let me know if there are problems with it, and also if it works.

The Chromium Updater is simple; it does less than the original. It downloads the latest build from the snapshot channel and installs it. It has to be run manually (it probably can be started from the Startup folder) and the update has to be started manually as well. The registry setting created by Martin Endres' Chromium Updater is reused (or created if you have not used it before). I have tested it on Windows7 (64bit).

I plan to make the source accessible, I have not yet decided how and where. I like to (slowly) add more functionality, like a configurable channel address. Comments on both are very welcome.

Update 24. July, 2011:

I fixed two bugs, one causing a crash when accessing the registry, another causing the Chromium download to fail. Also, I removed the requirement of .Net 4.0; now only 3.5 is needed, which comes with Windows7 by default.
chromiumupdater.zip (32bit)
size: 10911byte
md5sum: a5291b3ec5148a339778adcb1623bf0a
sha1sum: d5def4690acb51492474af11042957c5dea510ef

Update 3. August, 2011:

A new version of the Chromium Updater is available, which allows to install Chromium from different (configurable) channels. Currently three channels are available, Snapshot, Webkit-Snapshot and Continuous channel.
chromiumupdater.zip (32bit)
size: 13486byte
md5sum: 82c7b3f28cd7cd761140b631f61304ce
sha1sum: a8e7e1d4b06dd4e6e3eca591de86d3185eea3d2c