More and more deployments seem to come with sending Google Chrome out to client systems. Chrome is yet another application with built-in updating to make the process of owning software a bit less tedious for end users. However, in large deployments, we usually need to disable such a feature. Given how talented they are, the Googlers that built the automatic updaters went ahead and showed great foresight and made it easy to disable. Simply set the checkInterval key in com.google.Keystone.Agent to 0, done using defaults here:
defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0
Once disabled, use defaults to set the checkInterval key to how frequently you’d like the check to run (in seconds):
defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 36000
