I’ve been playing around a bit with Google Chrome lately. I switched back to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 as it answered a lot of the frustrations that I was having with Google Chrome (some key pages I like not rendering correctly). Though, when I switched one of my computer’s operating system to Windows 7 Beta 1, I was even more frustrated. The IE that came installed on Windows 7 was a less than superior IE than what I could download off of the Microsoft site. I tried to install the latest IE 8 version from the Microsoft site onto Windows 7, but the installer would not allow that install to occur as it didn’t recognize the operating system of all things (see http://geekswithblogs.net/evjen/archive/2009/01/15/128669.aspx for more information on that).
It really got to a point where I couldn’t use this IE8 on Windows 7 – so I downloaded Google Chrome to the OS instead. I was still having some of the same issues rendering some key sites as before and it seemed that Google Chrome hadn’t updated its version since it was released. I did find out that you can opt to take the dev build of Google Chrome (or the Beta builds) by changing you updater using this Google Chrome Channel Changer (from this site: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel/). I opted for the Dev version and once you switch to this version, you can click on the Wrench in the toolbar and select About Google Chrome. From here, you can then check to see if you have the latest version (you won’t in the first case) and from here update your Google Chrome version.
After you Google Chrome is updated (you will have to close all Chrome instances and then reopen them), you will notice (if you are running on Windows 7) that it just doesn't work. To make Google Chrome work on Windows 7, right click on Google Chrome icon from your desktop and select Properties. From the first tab, the General tab, you will need to change the value of the text in the Target textbox to:
C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --in-process-plugins
The bold part is the part that you are adding. Once you have done this, it will work in Windows 7 just fine.