What version of Google Chrome do I have?
It does have the option listed:
OPTIONS
Google Chrome has hundreds of undocumented command-line flags that are
added and removed at the whim of the developers. Here, we document
relatively stable flags.
...
--version
Show version information.
So you can use the command google-chrome
with the --version
option:
google-chrome --version
gives:
Google Chrome 36.0.1985.125
For the following commands, I am using grep
and regex, because it is much more adaptable to changes in Google Chrome version format changes
To get just the version number run the following command:
google-chrome --version | grep -iE "[0-9.]{10,20}"
It gives:
36.0.1985.125
And this one:
google-chrome --version | grep -iE " [0-9]{1,3}.[0-9]{1,3}
gives you just the main version numbers.
36.0
If you have beta installed:
Running this command:
google-chrome-beta --version
gives:
Google Chrome 37.0.2062.58 beta
And then there are the gui methods:
You can go to the following sites:
chrome://chrome
gives you this:
And
chrome://version
or
about:
Thanks Jeff Inventor Chrome OS.
gives this:
Google Chrome 36.0.1985.125 (Official Build 283153)
OS Linux
Blink 537.36 (@177902)
JavaScript V8 3.26.31.8
Flash 14.0.0.145
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36
Command Line /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --no-startup-window --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
Profile Path /home/tim/.config/google-chrome/Default
Variations e950616e-37fb3cc2
c70841c8-4866ef6e
3664a344-be9e69ba
9e5c75f1-ad69ceb0
24dca50e-837c4893
ca65a9fe-91ac3782
8d790604-9cb2a91c
4ea303a6-3d47f4f4
d8f57532-f23d1dea
b2612322-f8cf70e2
5a3c10b5-e1cc0f14
244ca1ac-4ad60575
5e29d81-f23d1dea
3ac60855-486e2a9c
246fb659-bca011b3
f296190c-cdc3d902
4442aae2-4ad60575
ed1d377-e1cc0f14
75f0f0a0-4ad60575
e2b18481-a5822863
e7e71889-e1cc0f14
cbf0c14e-bf3e6cfd
My pronouns are He / Him
Below command will give the version details only:
google-chrome --product-version
Output:
78.0.3904.70
For a more generic solution you can use apt-cache policy
, e.g.:
$ apt-cache policy google-chrome-stable
google-chrome-stable:
Installed: 36.0.1985.125-1
Candidate: 36.0.1985.125-1
This will work with all software installed through your package manager.