Chrome advice please

[tyred]

I'm running Opera on my XP machine and it seems to work without issue.

 

[swee'pea99]

You need a 17 year-old. I'll tag this to mine, @SamR who will tell you what to do!

Thanks. I hope he does know, 'cos it's doing my head in. (Mind you, if he's anything like my 17 year old, he'll just sneer 'loser', and refuse to get involved.

I see you have Adblock installed.So in that case right click the banner,select block this ad and use the slider until it disappears.

Thanks - at least an attempt at a helpful answer. But it's not an ad, or it would get blocked.

It cant be disabled

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/2r6F2QrLaug

Well there must be some way to do it, because...

I'm using Chrome and XP on my Thinkpad but I don't get the message so it must be configurable. I've got the automatic updates turned off if that helps.

Ditto for me, on my other laptop & 2 PCs, all also running XP, none of which suffers this disease. I winder if that's anything to do with the fact that all the others had Chrome installed before, and this message has been built into the latest version, which I downloaded as part of the re-install...

(Oh yes, PS, I also have auto-updates turned off.)

 

[mybike]

OK, silly question @swee'pea99 what are you using the PC for.

 

[growingvegetables]

It cant be disabled

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/2r6F2QrLaug

Sorry - here follows a classically useless post. [edited, with an apology to @Mark1978 ]

But it can be disabled? I don't get the message or anything similar. And it even appears I'm using Chrome 47.

But please don't ask me to explain how I reached this happy circumstance, 'cos I haven't a clue!

 

[swee'pea99]

OK, silly question @swee'pea99 what are you using the PC for.

It's my ony fwend.

 

[swee'pea99]

Not silly. Perfectly reasonable.

Browsing mostly. Bit of emailing. Bit of photo stuff, bit of music stuff. But mostly webbery.

 

[PeteXXX]

Have you tried clicking on the 'Learn more' option? Thete might just be a way of removing/overriding the popup there.
The other possibility is maybe a registry hack but I'll leave that to someone cleverer than me to explain.

 

[Tanis8472]

Uninstall your current version and try this thread for info
http://www.computing.net/howtos/sho...-its-hardware-is-no-longer-supported/919.html

 

[swee'pea99]

Uninstall your current version and try this thread for info
http://www.computing.net/howtos/sho...-its-hardware-is-no-longer-supported/919.html

Thanks. I tried. The second link downloaded but then wouldn't run. 'invalid' I think it said. So then I googled and found a site called oldversions, from which I downloaded and installed an old version. Which was great. Except that now when I go anywhere I just get loads of ads, which is even more annoying. And guess what. Google won't let me download adblock unless I - you'll never guess - install the latest version of Chrome.

What larks, Pip, what larks.

Or to put it another way....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGH!

 

[mybike]

Not silly. Perfectly reasonable.

Browsing mostly. Bit of emailing. Bit of photo stuff, bit of music stuff. But mostly webbery.

Seriously, using XP on the internet is hazardous.

And guess what. Google won't let me download adblock unless I - you'll never guess - install the latest version of Chrome.

Try uBlock Origin,

 

[swee'pea99]

I've jumped ship. Opera. With AdBlock. The guys at Google must be bereft.

Seriously, using XP on the internet is hazardous.

Living on the edge. It's all I understand.

 

[Mark1978]

Sorry - classically useless post.

But it can be disabled - I don't get the message or anything similar. And it even appears I'm using Chrome 47.

But please don't ask me to explain how I reached this happy circumstance, 'cos I haven't a clue!

So a Google employee says that it can't be disabled, I post a reference to this answering the OP's question, and that makes my post useless. Bizarre.

If you have the message then it can't be disabled. If you don't have the message, such as in your circumstance, you don't have a problem. You cant use your lack of message to determine that the message can be disabled as I'm assuming you didn't have the message in the first place.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I got that pop up today on this Vista powered laptop @swee'pea99. I may just ignore it for a while. The crunch will come for me when things start going downhill. But Opera you say? Is that when the fat lady sings?

 

[swee'pea99]

So a Google employee says that it can't be disabled, I post a reference to this answering the OP's question, and that makes my post useless. Bizarre.

If you have the message then it can't be disabled. If you don't have the message, such as in your circumstance, you don't have a problem. You cant use your lack of message to determine that the message can be disabled as I'm assuming you didn't have the message in the first place.

Sounds about right to me. And thanks for your post, BTW - it did end up leading me to a solution, albeit in a roundabout kind of way.

I got that pop up today on this Vista powered laptop @swee'pea99. I may just ignore it for a while. The crunch will come for me when things start going downhill. But Opera you say? Is that when the fat lady sings?

I don't think anything will go downhill as such; it'll just keep popping up this stupid message every single time you open Chrome from here on in. If you can live with that, you're fine. Me, I find it bloody annoying, all the more so because its obviously calculated 'won't-go-away-ability' is clearly designed not to inform but to bully, and I refuse to be bullied. I'll give up XP when it suits me, not google.

 

[Wafer]

its obviously calculated 'won't-go-away-ability' is clearly designed not to inform but to bully, and I refuse to be bullied. I'll give up XP when it suits me, not google.

That's because it's an important message, not because they want to bully you....