When starting Google Chrome Portable there is an error message "Your preferences file is currupt or invalid. Google Chrome is unable to recover your settings."
Deleting the whole folder of Google Chrome Portable and reinstalling it anew does not help. There is still this error.
Regarding John's assumption "NTFS drive with improper permissions": It's installed on a USB stick with FAT32. My assumption is that there might be some problem with the portalization of Chrome. Previous versions did not have this problem.
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Google Chrome Portable 10 Stable
March 10, 2011 - 1:39pm
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Google Chrome Portable 10 Stable
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Please provide more information including installation path, Windows version, any other software or antivirus that is running, etc. I am unable to reproduce this issue on my own systems.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
do a disk check
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Disk check with which software?
Windows 7, Anti-virus software (Trend Micro) turned off, still same error message from Chrome.
I think he means to try running Windows'
CHKDSK(which you can easily use to check your flashdrive by clickingOptions > Check Drive For Errorsfrom the PortableApps.com Menu) and see if there is a problem with it (which it might be able to fix in this way too).However, if it is in fact a problem with Google Chrome Portable, then you'll need to post more information (as John T Haller said above) or we won't be able to track it down.
~3D1T0R
I run CHKDSK with "automatically fix file system errors". This fixed the problem.
Thanks.
I get this:
10.0.648.133 (Official Build 77742) dev
>>> "dev" instead of stable.
The same thing happened with the previous version.
Chrome gets the channel from
HKCU\Software\Google\Update\ClientState\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}\ap, and this value is not changed by the launcher, so or 1) you have Chrome dev installed locally, or 2) you had Chrome dev installed locally.When you use it on a computer without Chrome installed, the channel will be not shown.
Previously known as kAlug.
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/GoogleChromePortable_10.0....
and then double-clicked the paf.exe.
The value of the
channelfield is not hardcoded in the application; it is in the registry key I mentioned earlier. Try changing it tobetaor empty and check the version again.BTW: if Chrome is not installed, the channel will be
unknown.Previously known as kAlug.
downloaded stable, beta, dev, and Canary versions of Chrome directly from links here: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
Though I didn't have any Chrome version on my PC at the time I downloaded the paf.exe I referred to above.
but I still feel I shouldn't have to edit the registry in order to download a portableapps.com software. Why is my PC's registry being "consulted"?
The channel will not affect the browser; it is informative only.
Previously known as kAlug.
to respond but I really, really don't understand what's going on. If I'm using something, I'd like to have the proper user agent string, version number, etc.
I've not faced this problem before with other portableapps.com software.
I'll regretfully just have to leave off using Chrome Portable until some kind soul explains what's going on in language I can understand.
The channel you see in about affects *absolutely nothing* within the portable browser itself. Nothing at all. It is solely to indicate what channel is selected on the *local* install of chrome (if there is one) and that is what the Google Updater (not included with Chrome Portable... and the local install of it does not interact with the portable browser) uses to determine when an update is available.
It does not affect the useragent. It does not affect the version number. It does not affect Chrome usage. It does not affect which browser you get from the PA.c Updater.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Don't worry about the channel, is the version number (10.0.648.133) that matters.
Previously known as kAlug.
Downloading it again because I deleted it in [strong]panic[/strong]!
Thanks for the assurance!