

I have been running Chrome on this Windows 7 computer for years and it works just fine. I believe the download was for the newest version which will not install on Windows 7. I connected that computer to the internet and the same thing happened.


I followed the link from Neowin to and downloaded the file which was supposed to be for the 64 bit version 109 of Chrome but when I went to install it on my other Windows 7 computer, it tried to go online and download the browser and install it and the installation failed. That would be a far safer and more secure way to access the internet from your computer today then continuing to use Windows 7 paired with an old version of a web browser. You will also be able to run a current version of Google's Chrome web browser on it, with all of the security updates that have come out since version 109 of that web browser was last released. Microsoft Windows 10 came out eight years ago in 2015, and its hardware requirements were very similar to Windows 7, so a computer that could run Windows 7 decently should have no problem running Windows 10 today, which is a modern, more secure operating system that will receive security updates until at least October 2025. Support for Windows 7 ended in January 2020, which is a five years ago. With all of that said, I would be remiss if I didn't caution you about the risk of connecting a computer with an end of life operating system to the Internet. If you do find the version 109 build that you are looking for, perhaps that will allow you to authenticate it. I did some additional searching and came up with the following:Īpplication Name: Google Chrome Web Browser (32-bit) Since Google does not seem to provide a copy of this old version for download anymore, you will likely have to keep searching until you find a copy of it. I believe that is the last build of version 109, as the next build of the Google Chrome web browsers for Windows (at least that I am aware of) is version 1.77. I did find this Neowin article from the beginning of 2023: Google Chrome 1.120 (offline installer) which might be the build you were looking for, but I'm not certain. Since you did not mention the exact build of version 109 of Google Chrome's web browser nor provide a link to Neowin's article in question, it is a bit difficult to find the specific build you might have been trying to download. It depends on how the software developer releases the program for download. Sometimes the Neowin articles link to the direct version of a program, and sometimes they link to a hotlink that downloads the latest version of a program.
