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
nice try, but google (geniuses) redirect me to a Finnish webpage for the EULA and thence to a download for Linux versions, nice.
Admittedly I’m in Finland on a Linux PC, but I’m trying to download the full English installer for the PC version, for work, where I can’t get the bloody thing to install behind a proxy.
And yes I am logged in to google and all my preferences are set to English, this is somehting that is forever broken in google.com (beta 0.00000234)
Actually I’m running chrome to something the auto redirect failed to notice.
Google use the same proxy settings as Internet Explorer. In IE, go to Tools > Internet Options > Connections > LAN settings. Uncheck Automatic detect setting.
Thanks so much for the link to the installer, was looking everywhere for one. You’d think they could fix this up, I was so frustrated that it wouldn’t work behind my work proxy.
Hi Guys,
You can download the standalone installer here : http://www.google.com/support/installer/bin/answer.py?answer=126299
Thanks..
Terrific Article on proxies related ip blogs. I actually am in the proxies trade on my own.
bob
Thanks for the tips, guys. Unchecking the ‘Automatically Detect Settings’ in IE did the trick for me.