If your Google Chrome installer never gets past the ‘Connecting to the Internet…’ stage and you access the web through a work/school/university network, or other proxy, it may be that your proxy requires you to put in a password (ie authenticate). (If you get the error message “Send request returned 0×80042197. Http status code 407.” this is also likely to be your problem.)
The Chrome installer is trying to download itself, but the geniuses (yes, really) at google forgot to put in a password input box. Until Google releases an updated installer, you can download the full Chrome installer here:
http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/149.29/chrome_installer.exe
Once you have that file, all ya gotta do is run it. Have a good one!
Hey,
Use this switch with the chrome excitable..
On Vista:
C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –proxy-server=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:PORT
On XP:
%APPDATA%\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –proxy-server=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:PORT
You can modify the short-cut if you want so it always loads up with that proxy… now use your imagination, create many shortcuts with different proxies and stay anonymous
Cheers,
KG
http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_chrome/
Filehippo has all the versions
Tnx mate..
This helped me a lot.
Same issue with Chrome 4 – link at very top worked to chromesetup_195_38.exe