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I'm using Google Chrome for Digital Signage and also making it play audio (radio) in a second tab, but since Chrome v60 they removed the flag (disable-gesture-requirement-for-media-playback) to automatically play sound from an unopened tab.
So I reverted back to Chrome v59 and disabled auto updates. It won't auto update anymore, but after a while it still shows toast popups on the screen which is rather embarrassing. How do I prevent this popup from showing?
Ketho
Posted 2017-10-05T17:19:01.257
Reputation: 332
There a reason you don't just simply disable chrome from being able to automatically update? If you disable the service, then chrome won't know it isn't the current version, and you would have resolved your problem. – Ramhound – 2017-10-05T17:23:06.453
I make an Intel Compute Stick auto run Chrome which opens 2 tabs (Google Slides and radio), but the radio won't auto play since it's in an unopened tab. I could set the
disable-gesture-requirement-for-media-playbackflag to true to bypass that, but this has been removed in Chrome v60, that's why I need to revert and properly disable the service – Ketho – 2017-10-05T17:30:27.477I would assume you have a method to remote into the device in order to restart the service. Like I said I would just use the administrative template to handle this behavior. I would even argue there very little reason to even update Chrome, given you are presenting information you created (I assume), and the audio would be a local file (I assume). – Ramhound – 2017-10-05T17:34:48.423
I used to remote into the device with Chrome Remote Desktop but that's only possible with the release branch since I'd need to login to Chrome. The device runs Windows 10 Home so remoting with mstsc was out of the question sadly. The audio is an online radio stream (skyradio.nl). But how would the administrative template prevent this update popup? – Ketho – 2017-10-05T17:43:18.230
Have you even tried my suggestion with regards to disabling the service, and now allowing it to update, before dismissing my suggestion because of the release channel requirement? I have a feeling it will work. – Ramhound – 2017-10-05T17:45:26.200
Could you elaborate how to disable the service? The "Google Update" plugin does not exist anymore and I have renamed the
– Ketho – 2017-10-05T17:48:03.037Updatefolder in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18483087/how-to-disable-google-chrome-auto-update