Downloadsquad covered how to do this a couple months ago:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/04/06/how-to-block-ads-in-google-chrome-with-adsweep/

In my experience, Adsweep does even better than Adblock Plus.

Firefox has an updater that runs when you run the browser. It's not a separate program. Chrome's updater runs in the background constantly.

They're putting an extra process in the background without your permission.

there SHOULD be an option to choose wether you want to make it work that way or if you want to update when there's an update available, like All the other browsers.

It's faster than firefox in both my pc and my netbook, uses less space and i also love the minimalistic and stylish look of it...YET...the update is a very bad thing.

FireFox is the best in the update process, you can download the update within FF and it'll be installed right after the download it's complete.

Opera, on the other hand, makes you download the whole new browser

GoogleChrome updates everything in the background, making use of your processor, cycle times of your processor [of course.], memory, and let's not forget about your network. They may be small enough so you don't have to care about it, but it's still being used without any particular Good reason.

There are three "update paradigms" there :

FF > normal update paradigm
Opera > worst update paradigm
Chrome > best update paradigm
I don't know how Safari's is.

Why is it the best ? because the browser is going to be up to date every day withouth bothering you to download and install it. This may be the best choice for the "end-user without a lot of knowledge about how to use a computer", but still, it's a "trojan-like" behaviour that MOST of us [us as in the people who knows how to really use a pc] don't like at all and want to control it.

It's a "cloud" approach to regular updates and you can read Lee Mathews' article about why cloud computing is not the best thing after all [and i couldn't agree more with him in this matter].

But the worst part of all, is that you don't have any idea if this GoogleUpdate.exe proccess it's actually checking for updates or sending other information. You just can't tell because you didn't program it, and it's something unnaceptable.

Yet, it's the best one to mantain the browser updated, but people HAS to have an option to disable it and update when they feel to.

So, as you can see it's not just "i hate it because i can", i have reasons.

@HZ: How would you rank the latest IE update paradigm?

@Quickboy

I wouldn't call "a good update paradigm" to update the important things once a decade. Most of -if not all- IE updates on IE6 and IE7 has been security updates because of their buggy development paradigm [yes, i love the word paradigm].

Still, even though i'm using IE7 i tried to install IE8 and nothing happened. but i really don't care [yet]. But, after all, MS lets you choose if you want every update to be downloaded/installed automatically, auto-downloaded and manually installing it or everything manually. Which is the way to go. (IMO)

Still2, they may change that because people always blame them of faulty software (which indeed it is) and they don't get updates for X reason and it gives a bad image [which they already have and it's purely their fault] to them. Remember the pro-pirate updates on w7 ?

But, staying on topic, IE at least lets you CHOOSE. Actually not IE but Windows, but still.

@HZ

You're kidding right? Opera has the "worst update paradigm" because you need to download a new 5.4MB file?

should have added this is and I quote:

' SRWare Iron: The browser of the future - based on the free Sourcecode "Chromium" - without any problems at privacy and security '

IE1 was not launched in 2008.

I installed chromium by doubleclicking the miniinstaller after downloading it, are you sure you are using the latest version?

I misunderstood you were talking about OSX