>From the right email address this time.
If you really want to hack it, I think the below steps would work but there
> are some many corner cases in the install flow, I am not sure if it will
> always work.
>
> - Change
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\ClientState\{8A69D345-D564-463C-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}\ap
> key (2.0-dev = dev channel, 2.0-beta = beta channel, empty = stable channel)
> - Change
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\ClientState\{8A69D345-D564-463C-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}\pv
> key to 1.0.0.0 (if the key exists)
> - Change
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\Clients\{8A69D345-D564-463C-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}\pv
> key to 1.0.0.0
> - Rename %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application
> Data\Google\Chrome\Application\<version> folder from W.X.Y.Z to 1.0.0.0
> - Start Chrome, go to about chrome box, hopefully it will prompt you for an
> update, once you install it you will be on the channel that you selected in
> the first step.
>
> After looking at the steps, I am thinking it would be simpler to just
> uninstall and reinstall though. Also if you are going from version N to
> version N-1 there is always a small chance of Chrome profile not being
> compatible with the older version of Chrome.
>
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Aaron Boodman <a...@google.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Mark Mentovai <m...@chromium.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Finnur Thorarinsson wrote:
>> >> You can use the channel changer, as PhistucK points out, to switch and
>> then
>> >> use the About box to update, but you can only move forward in time
>> (stable
>> >> -> beta -> dev).
>> >
>> > I'm pretty sure the changer is deprecated. The supported way to hop
>> > between channels is to run the installer for whatever channel you want
>> > to move to.
>>
>> Right, but you can't downgrade, so this approach only works a maximum of
>> twice.
>>
>> I'm leaning toward just having separate user accounts for now.
>>
>> -a
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