In your case, probably it’ll just relaunch. One of my tab has an unsaved blog draft, so here’s what I see next: You can remain skeptical, but it’d be quite a hack to have this be something that’s going to actually install malware rather than do what it says, update chrome and relaunch it.Ĭlick on “ Relaunch” to proceed. Of course, it’s the first line in the menu that’s important: “Update Google Chrome”.

” icon, which is clear when the regular Chrome menu pops up, as shown above.

Like this:Īt this point if you’re super skeptical, you could ask “but is that really what it is, or is this some sort of scam trick to get me to click on it?” My answer: Yeah, that’s what it is.Īnd it’s only now that I realize that it’s replaced the usual “ Turns out if you move the cursor over one of the little icons, it’ll pop up a window that tells you what program or extension is responsible for that particular element. The red icon is ExpressVPN (handy having it on the browser toolbar) but that green circle with the white arrow? No idea, I certainly have no memory of installing an extension that has that graphic.

Let’s check it out, because as you sent this in I also got a green arrow icon and was darn curious what it was about.

Generally speaking, Google does a really seamless job with upgrades too, so every tab you have will re-open once you’ve updated so there’s really no reason not to do it immediately. It denotes that there’s a system update available for the browser and that you’re now running an obsolete and potentially dangerous older version. Now, if the green arrow is the one I think it is, that’s actually part of Google Chrome itself. That’s a good idea anyway, just like toolbars don’t just add ’em because you can! If you’re not adding third party extensions and plug-ins, you should be pretty darn safe, and if you are adding extensions, make sure they’re from reputable developers and, worst case, delete the ones you aren’t sure about by going to More Tools > Extensions from the “ Google puts a lot of effort into ensuring that its uber-popular Chrome web browser is safe from malware and other bad software that could show up on your system, whether you’re running Android, Windows, MacOS X or even Linux.

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