Automatic Chrome/Electron updates

[Jamesking56]

Does the built-in Chrome still update automatically or is it locked to a specific version? The reason I ask is I want to get this installed into some big organisations who only install once. We have a web app but I think they will use it more if it is natively installed on their systems.

Thanks.

[ronjouch]

@Jamesking56 thanks for the feedback! There's no automatic update: yes a nativefied app is locked to a specific version of Chrome/Electron, which you can specify at build time using the --electron-version option (see nativefier --help for the full list of options, and go to the electron/releases page to pick your favorite stable/beta flavor of Electron poison :) ). There's no plan to change that, as all the machinery for this is part of the nativefier builder and not the nativefied app.

However,

• You can upgrade an app by just re-running nativefier at the same place with a newer --electron-version
• Since you mention it's for enterprise deployment, what would make sense is that administrators periodically do this re-bundling (to benefit from Electron/Chrome security & perf improvements) and deploy the newly-bundled app to the fleet of machines, using Active Directory or whatever they use for that.

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Duplicate of #291