omaha
Google Update for Windows (by google)
supporting-extensions
By privacyone
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| omaha | supporting-extensions | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2 | |
| 2,510 | 4 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 6.9 | 1.8 | |
| 8 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C++ | JavaScript | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
omaha
Posts with mentions or reviews of omaha.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-15.
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How exactly does updating work
This is actually a difficult problem. The general idea is that you can figure out where your application is installed, download a new version of it, and replace it. However in practice it is difficult to do in a way that works with various operating systems policies. For an example, you can see how Chrome manages this on windows https://github.com/google/omaha
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Google Chrome emergency update fixes zero-day used in attacks
You don’t opt-in to updates to Chrome and you will have one hell of a time opting out. If you’re on Windows, take a look at your task scheduler and notice that the Google Update task runs every hour in which it sends the current version of Chrome (stored in registry) to a Google URL and if that doesn’t match the latest then Google Chrome updates. You just need to restart your browser. Google update is a branded open source project called Omaha which is a very minimal and clever approach to application updates. Here’s the GitHub if you’re interested in learning more.
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Breeze Browsers.
They use a fork of Omaha Updater for updates on Windows (I use Windows btw, it sucks)
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Updating Google Chrome
Hi there. Chrome uses GoogleUpdate.exe to... er... update itself. GoogleUpdate is based on a project called Omaha. There is pretty good detail on how it works here. It might be as simple as force-running GoogleUpdate.exe with PowerShell to kickoff the update process.
supporting-extensions
Posts with mentions or reviews of supporting-extensions.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-16.
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Breeze Browsers.
All changes made to supporting extensions are related to control from Privacy Master Controler (PMC). Supporting extensions settings are manipulated using the 3 toggles in PMC dropdown menu (link). Currently, changes can be found by searching for "Breeze" in comments in extensions source files. Also, here is a brief explanation of what's modified in each extension.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing omaha and supporting-extensions you can also consider the following projects:
Squirrel - An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps
breeze-webstore-extension
Wix Toolset
Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
Wax - An interactive editor for WiX setup projects.
Onova - Unintrusive auto-update framework
CrowdStrike_RTR_Powershell_Scripts
wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly
interface-types
wxWidgets - Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library