Chrome Portable Downloader

The easiest way to find specified version of Chrome installer from Google update server and run it as a portable application.

1. Download Chrome installer from selected channel (What are Chrome release channels?)

Click at Chrome icon to download Chrome installer file from Google update server. Please note, you can specify version of Chrome with this tool.

• Stable Channel updates every 4 weeks.
  
  
• Beta Channel updates every week roughly and more than a month before Stable channel.
  
  
• Dev Channel updates once or twice weekly, and it shows what we're working on right now. While this build does get tested, it is still subject to bugs, as we want people to see what's new as soon as possible.
  
  
• Canary Channel updates daily. This build has not been tested or used, it's released as soon as it's built.
  
  

Or you may download Chrome installer manually via the following page.
https://soul-master.github.io/ChromePortableDownloader/

2. Open Chrome installer with 7-zip

3. Open "chrome.7z" file inside Chrome installer

4. Copy/Extract "chrome-bin" folder

For this example, I extracted and renamed to "Chrome93" folder

5. Open Chrome as portable application

• If you want to open only one version, you can open Chrome via "chrome.exe" directly. It should open user profile from default folder.

• To open multiple versions at the same time, you need to open Chrome with different profile folder like the following command.

chrome.exe --user-data-dir="./PortableProfile"

You may need create shortcut and put additional argument like this.

FAQ

How to manually check release version?

• https://omahaproxy.appspot.com/
  
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/search/label/Desktop%20Update

How to find Chrome features for specified version?

https://www.chromestatus.com/roadmap

How to turn-off some features?

• Chrome Flags for Tooling
• List of all Chromium Command Line Switches

Can I install Chrome with this installer?

Yes. But, this installer doesn't include auto update feature. It means you need to manually install Chrome to update version.

For ended user, please install Chrome with auto update feature via one of the following links.

Stable channel https://www.google.com/chrome/?standalone=1
Beta channel https://www.google.com/chrome/beta/?standalone=1
Dev channel https://www.google.com/chrome/dev/?standalone=1
Canary channel https://www.google.com/chrome/canary/?standalone=1

Can I create portable Chrome from regular installer?

Yes. However, there is no straightforward way to extract Chrome folder from regular installer. You need to install it before copy Chrome folder.