Audion Chrome Portable

Русский · User Guide

Contents

• Why It Exists
• What Is in the Build
• Certificates
• Chrome++
• Next
• Technical Reference
• The Window
• Updating

Builds a portable Google Chrome, keeps it updated, keeps Chrome++ current, and places the Russian state root certificates into the build.

Why It Exists

Google Chrome has no portable build at all — neither official nor a maintained third-party one. Yet the browser itself is perfectly portable: everything it needs sits beside the executable, and the only obstacle is an installer insistent on spreading it across the system.

The answer is simple: do not run the installer — unpack it.

copyChromeStandaloneSetup64.exe (~120 MB)
└── Chrome.7z
    └── Chrome-bin\  →  <build>\App\
          chrome.exe

Out of a hundred and twenty megabytes of installer comes the thing it was built to deliver, placed into a build folder. Nothing is installed into Windows.

What Is in the Build

copyApp\                          the browser itself
Data\                         the profile: bookmarks, extensions, settings
Certificates\                 the state root certificates and two wrappers
Google Chrome Portable.cmd    launcher
Portable-Build.json           which versions are inside

It travels whole. The profile is inside — moving to another machine loses neither bookmarks nor extensions.

Certificates

Russian state portals issue certificates absent from the Windows store — and without them those sites will not open. The program places them into the build along with two wrappers: install and remove.

The second matters as much as the first. Installing a root certificate changes the system, and that change must be undoable in one action rather than by hunting through the certificate store.

Chrome++

The add-on the build's convenience rests on. The program keeps it current alongside the browser itself.

One thing is worth knowing about it: a build can fail during packing with a file access error — and that is neither the disk nor a corrupt archive, but the antivirus inspecting a freshly written executable. Covered in tools\CHROME_PLUS_AND_DEFENDER.md (Russian).

Next

• User Guide — step by step.
• Checklist — what is run before a release (Russian).
• tools\CHROME_PLUS_AND_DEFENDER.md — Chrome++ and the antivirus.
• tools\DECISIONS_EN.md — decisions taken.

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Technical Reference

The Window

Four switchable tabs. A command with its parameters unfolds on the tab itself: its own run button named after the action, with the parameters beside it — not in a separate settings dialog.

Updating

What the vendor released is compared against what is in the build. Only what changed is updated; the profile is left alone.

copy$name = "Audion_Chrome_Portable_v1.0.1_Full.zip"
Invoke-WebRequest "https://audion.dev/get/chrome-portable/1.0.1/Audion_Chrome_Portable_v1.0.1_Full.zip" -OutFile $name
Invoke-WebRequest "https://audion.dev/get/chrome-portable/1.0.1/Audion_Chrome_Portable_v1.0.1_Full.zip.sha256" -OutFile "$name.sha256"

$want = (Get-Content "$name.sha256").Split(" ")[0]
$have = (Get-FileHash $name -Algorithm SHA256).Hash.ToLower()
if ($want -ne $have) { throw "checksum mismatch: the download is corrupt" }

Expand-Archive $name -DestinationPath ".\chrome-portable"