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With Gmail, if something is wrong in the code, they can fix it and everything is fine in a matter of hours/days. With Chrome, if there's a problem in the code, they can fix the bug, but then it could be months or years before people actually upgrade Chrome.

Desktop software requires a higher standard because you can't just fix things that are wrong.




Chrome actually updates itself automatically in the background.


Tell me about it. GoogleUpdate.exe keeps coming back no matter what I do.




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