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I wrote a post about how Chrome's Linux updates work:

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/08/zygote....

(Sorry to spam this thread multiple times with this, but it is very relevant.)

I feel your post is answering a different question than what I asked? You're answering "why is our process spawning model so obscure on Linux" rather than "why does Chrome not shove its updates down Linux users' throats out-of-band like it does on every other platform". (Unless you're suggesting the answer is the bit where you say they just didn't want to appear lame?)

That is the answer, yes.

Wow, that is lame.

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