Google Chrome Offline Standalone Installer

Can’t download Google Chrome at work or school?

Getting the Installer download failed, “Error code=0×80072f78″?

Google Chrome

Your firewall is likely blocking the installer from downloading the program. The Google Chrome setup file that you download from http://www.google.com/chrome/ actually downloads another file which is the actual program.

Many blogs have reported that you can download this other file and install Google Chrome on computers not connected to the Internet and those with firewalls blocking the installation by downloading directly from http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe. (There are a few other variations.)

That location no longer works, however, and here’s why:

See the 149.27 in the URL? That’s the version number and there’s a newer version out. Thus, Google has canceled that particular version in favor of the newer one. Remember that this is beta software and there are mistakes and bugs.

So, how do you find the correct download?

You need two things: 1) The above URL and 2) the current version number.

1. You already have the URL. It’s http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe.
2. You can get the current version number from visiting http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/ and searching for the most recent BETA post. It has to be a beta.

As of today (May 26th, 2009) the most recent beta release is 2.0.172.30 so … take the last two numbers, substitue them into your URL, and you have the download URL for the current beta release of the Google Chrome Offline Standalone Installer! As of today, it’s

http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/172.30/chrome_installer.exe

Enjoy!

And no, I don’t know how this might change once the product is no longer a beta. For now, this should work and knowing how long Google’s betas can last I’d say that could be a long while.