Chrome Update Question

Grasshopper · November 27, 2021 at 5:25 PM

Hello, First of all thanks for this amazing creation!!

Running latest generic build with LE at 10.0.1, Kodi at 19.3, LE addon repo at 10.0.0 and Chrome addon at 10.0.0.107 which gives me google chrome version 92.0.4515.107. Chrome gives popup saying a update is available. I see in chrome addon setting that there is an auto-update switch which is set to on. Does this mean chrome should auto update itself when google updates or does it mean that chrome will update when chrome addon is updated by LE team or only when the whole of LE itself is updated? I see by LE GitHub that chrome addon is at version 111 which would be google version 96.0.4664.45.

Thanks in advance

**heitbaum** · November 28, 2021 at 1:09 AM

Hi Grasshopper - https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/5878 is still in the Queue for LE10, which is why you are not seeing it updated yet.

Grasshopper · November 28, 2021 at 2:00 AM

Hello heitbaum, Thank you for the info. I'll wait for the next update.

daniber58 · December 6, 2021 at 3:28 PM

Hope update will come soon. Netflix by browser p.e. results blocked because of "Chrome outdated version" currently.

**CvH** · December 6, 2021 at 6:34 PM

sadly our buildserver can't compile the chrome addon for some reason, so someone (me) needs to manually build and ship it - thats why it takes a lot longer then usual

updated now

Grasshopper · December 6, 2021 at 11:28 PM

Hello everyone. Here is a way that works for me to manually update chrome while waiting for the official update.

1) Uninstall chrome addon, save data if you wish.

2) Download from repo again but before running the addon.

3) SSH into the following file, I use WinSCP. /storage/.kodi/addons/browser.chrome/bin/chrome-downloader and edit line 12 CHROME_FILE="google-chrome-stable_96.0.4664.45-1_amd64.deb" by changing 96.0.4664.45 to what ever the current stable chrome release is after a google search for it. Ex: 97.0.4692.20

4) Save file, exit SSH.

5) Run chrome addon now and it will download, extract, and install the latest stable release.

6) Next chrome update popup, repeat process.

Hopefully this works for you.

**CvH** · December 7, 2021 at 11:44 AM

Quote from Grasshopper

Hopefully this works for you.

this works as long chrome don't need any new lib or some lib version updated, it would be easy to implement an "updater" but that would result a fair chance that chrome is broken after update

Grasshopper · December 14, 2021 at 3:56 PM

Thanks CvH, I did consider that before I tried my experiment. I figured if it did break something I would just uninstall and reinstall.

Have used this way a couple of times to update and have not had any problems. (Lucky?) It's a shame you have to do extra work, it's much appreciated. Any idea why buildserver won't work with addon?

**CvH** · December 15, 2021 at 10:41 AM

Quote from Grasshopper

Lucky?

yes, as soon chrome needs a new lib that we don't ship (or wrong version) it fails to load, we saw that already several times

Quote from Grasshopper

Any idea why buildserver won't work with addon?

we never found the reason of it, a renew of the buildserver is scheduled so I hope it get fixed due that

Reddirt · December 15, 2021 at 10:33 PM

Thanks CvH. Your efforts are certainly appreciated.

RD

pohutukawa · December 16, 2021 at 1:17 AM

There was an issue with Chrome launching with custom audio devices configured. I've filed an issue (and created a PR with a fix already):
https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/issues/5982

Hope that helps keeping the Chrome add-on buzzing.

lmhtb · December 20, 2021 at 5:23 PM

Hey, I'm trying to follow these instructions but I already fail finding the chrome addon in the Libreelec repo? Like the Thread Starter I'm at these versions: LE at 10.0.1, Kodi at 19.3, LE addon repo at 10.0.0

Grasshopper · December 21, 2021 at 1:52 AM

LM, The chrome addon is under programs in the LE repo. Click on it and it will install the latest version of chrome for you.

**chewitt** · December 21, 2021 at 4:26 AM

Note that the Chrome addon only exists for Generic x86_64 images. You won't find it for any ARM SoC devices.

lmhtb · December 21, 2021 at 1:23 PM

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You won't find it for any ARM SoC devices.

Ah well, that's it... I have a rpi4.

robvh · September 28, 2022 at 10:44 AM Best Answer

Going to directory /storage/.kodi/addons/browser.chrome and removing file extract.ok forces a reload of the chrome binary next time you run the chrome addon. This is much more convenient than uninstalling the chrome installer, thus loosing your preferences, bookmarks, etc.

I just updated my LE 10.0.0.2 to 106.0.5249.61-1 (version number from ubuntu) using the process in post #6, and was lucky to see no new libraries were needed.

daniber58 · September 28, 2022 at 5:46 PM

robvh, some more details ? Copying exactly what from Ubuntu ?

robvh · September 30, 2022 at 11:18 AM

I found out the most recent version of Chrome from the ubuntu page. Then I copied that version number into chrome-downloader as described in post #6 above.