Quoting Andrew McGlashan ([email protected]):

> 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.)

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