Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au):
Definitely not a support of Google Chrome, but it will likely get security patches more quickly than Chromium.
This seems surprising, given that Chromium is the base code: My understanding is that Google occasionally takes a snapshot, decides to deem it stable, and adds a few few proprietary extras before releasing that as a Google Chrome thing. (I have avoided ever running Google Chrome, as I try to have minimal dealings with the second-nosiest company on the planet, and see no reason to trust its binary-only code, given ample alternatives.) Of course, the burden is on users (and distro packagers) to refresh as suits local/distro policy. Just getting a Chromium daily build, e.g., directly from Google at chromium.org (ugh! proprietary-OS bad habits ahoy), and then _never updating_ would have adverse results over time. So, Don't Do That, Then. Perhaps you're referring to the lack of an 'automatic update' feature internal to the Chromium codebase. Personally, I consider those undesirable generically, tending to interfer with a distro's own maintenance policy. (Proprietary OSes of course don't have distro policies, so sucks to be them.)