Installing Google Chrome behind a proxy
September 3rd, 2008 by hayesy
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!
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September 4th, 2008 at 10:55 am
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
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September 3rd, 2008 at 7:54 pm
cheers for the tip mate!
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
wow thanks, dude!
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Thanks. I was trying to convince my boss to deactivate the proxy for a while… not needed anymore.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:26 pm
great help !!! I was wondering why it did not prompt for password
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
THANK YOU!!!
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Cheers
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Thanks for that link, I’ve been trying to get it downloaded all morning, but corporate our firewall has been doing everything in it’s power to bugger it up.
I really cannot believe that Google didn’t do a better job of the downloader.
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:51 pm
To all: no worries, always welcome!
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Thank you!
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Thanks!!!
I have the same problem.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:17 pm
my gosh andy, looks like you hit a niche!
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 pm
It seems to use the OS’s proxy settings, *but* even after putting the proxy there correctly, things doesn’t work for me. I need to use proxy to bypass some filtering.
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Thanks from Modena, Italy.
September 4th, 2008 at 2:45 am
Thanks for that TCA.
What is it with Google and proxies. Gears is the same, won’t install from behind a proxy.
September 4th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Thanks, Muchas Gracias, from Argentina !!
September 4th, 2008 at 5:38 am
I have Chrome installed on my thumb drive just like firefox but Chrome wants me to authenticate telling me that the proxy requires a username and password and it doesn’t. Other thing, why is Chrome using ie for its LAN settings and why doesn’t it work with these setting because ie works just fine?
September 4th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Even after installing in this way there are still problems with pages not fully loading or displaying at all while in a proxy protected environment. I installed it at home and it works great!
September 4th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Once again, you guys are all welcome
Yeah, my installation also doesn’t load parts of some pages (like… gmail for example?) I have no idea why that is.
Larry, I think it uses IE to make it simple, so you don’t need to manually change every browser and application when you switch networks. It would be nice to have the option of independent settings, though.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I have been trying to figure out how to install Chrome behind the corporate proxy for days since the release. Thanks for this!
September 4th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
perfect! I was having a same problem..thanks for tip!
September 4th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
You just saved my life, couldn’t have chrome because of my company’s firewall, grrrrr
cheers !
September 4th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
I just thought I would never get to see this
Thanks Buddy!!
September 4th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
in my case after “connecting to internet” installer program shows “downloading…” and then it goes on for few minutes and says: Installer download failed. Error code = 0×80072efd
September 4th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
wow you’ve all now downloaded a browser that you’re not going to use for another 6 months because it’s a beta that still needs massive work done to it
September 5th, 2008 at 12:13 am
yea, proberly, but at least i can say, hey have u tried the new google browser? i have!
September 5th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Love you man!
September 5th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
thanks alot hayesy
cool simple tip
September 5th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
i found numbers of exes running while i started chrome. without opening a single web page it starts two exes and further one exe for each tab. i don’t know it’s a bug or not, but it’s gonna take a huge memory space and process time creating multiple exes if you open good numbers of tabs together. i hope google people are aware of this issue and give us a better Chrome in final release. but above all it’s pretty fast and good looking, also very light weight. thanks to google.
September 5th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Debarshi, tis not a bug: its a feature. (Well, obviously not if you’re light on memory, but..) The idea is that every tab is its own instance of the program – which means if one crashes, it doesn’t bring down the whole lot. I suspect it’s also key in the ‘drag a tab into its own window’ feature.
September 5th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Thanks a lot buddy, great work .
You have hit a niche
September 6th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Ta. From Rhodes University in South Africa.
September 7th, 2008 at 2:56 am
Thanks from Cabinda province, Angola!
September 7th, 2008 at 4:31 am
Thanks from Saudi!
September 8th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Hi all.
If you want to download latest realease of Chrome go to next URL:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/
Good luck, Sergey.
September 9th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Thanks a lot. great help..
September 10th, 2008 at 4:16 am
THANK YOU!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Awsome! Thanks from India!!
September 10th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
you’re great one!! much helpful rather than google guys whom never know why only know how…
September 11th, 2008 at 7:08 am
la pagina http://rafaelaita.org.pe/ no se puede ver…..
September 16th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Is the installer for XP?
Chrome from above link doesn’t work on my Vista PC.
Is anyone here Vista user?
Please give us another link for a Vista installer.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:43 am
This link is no longer valid-is there another place where this can be found?
September 24th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Link updated, try now
September 25th, 2008 at 8:36 am
That worked! Thanks so much!
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
in my case after “connecting to internet” installer program shows “downloading…” and then it goes on for few minutes and says: Installer download failed. Error code = 0×80040508
October 21st, 2008 at 3:59 pm
thanks for the link
February 26th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
link you provided: 404 error not found
March 25th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Nice friend, looking this one from a long time…
March 25th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Thanks for your help buddy.
March 25th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
My pleasure
ps – Jesus came and died on the cross in your place, for your sins… are you forgiven?
April 13th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Thanx bro
April 28th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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
July 27th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
http://www.filehippo.com/download_google_chrome/
Filehippo has all the versions
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Tnx mate..
This helped me a lot.
January 27th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
Same issue with Chrome 4 – link at very top worked to chromesetup_195_38.exe