Update Chrome Web Browser

Updated at: Feb 15, 2022

This guide will step you through the process of updating your Google Chrome web browser.

Do you need to know what version of Chrome do I have?

Unless you have specifically disabled it Chrome will check for updates every couple of hours and automatically update itself, but here's how to manually tell Chrome to update itself.

1. Click the "Customize and Control" button

   In the top-right corner of the Chrome window you'll see the Customise menu icon - it looks like three little black dots on top of each other - click it.

   

   This will reveal a menu with lots of options. One of them will be named "Settings".

2. Hover your mouse on the "Help" menu item

   

   When you hover on the Help menu item another menu will appear out to the side - it contains the About Google Chrome option.

3. Click "About Google Chrome"

   

   You will be taken to the About page for Chrome.

4. Chrome will automatically check for updates

   As soon as you open the "About" screen for Chrome, it will automatically start to check if there are any updates available for your copy of Chrome. If there are updates available it will start to download them. You don't need to do anything to start this process.

   

   Chrome tells you that it's "Checking for updates..." while it checks for a newer version.

   Version numbers shown here are examples and will change depending on what is considered the latest version...

5. If Chrome finds updates, click "Relaunch" to install them

   If Chrome finds updates, it will automatically download and install them. Once this is done you need to click the Relaunch button to finish this process. Clicking it will restart Chrome. Chrome should remember which websites you have open and reopen them when it starts up again.