Google Play Games is detected as a Chrome browser #90

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1. leumasme

   changed the title [-]Google Play Games is detected as a browser[/-] [+]Google Play Games is detected as a Chrome browser[/+] on Nov 22, 2025
2. vweevers commented on Nov 22, 2025

   

   vweevers

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   Can you please run npx win-detect-browsers --debug chrome? Prints some extra information about the origin.

   My guess would be:

   win-detect-browsers/lib/browsers.js

   Line 29 in 1670194

   this.registry('Google\\Update', 'LastInstallerSuccessLaunchCmdLine')
3. leumasme commented on Nov 22, 2025

   

   leumasme

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   Yup, guess seems right:

     win-detect-browsers Found chrome:
     win-detect-browsers   - C:\Program Files\Google\Play Games\Bootstrapper.exe
     win-detect-browsers   @ HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Google\Update /v LastInstallerSuccessLaunchCmdLine +0ms
   

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     win-detect-browsers Found chrome:
     win-detect-browsers   - C:\Program Files\Google\Play Games\Bootstrapper.exe
     win-detect-browsers   @ HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Google\Update /v LastInstallerSuccessLaunchCmdLine +0ms
     win-detect-browsers Found chrome:
     win-detect-browsers   - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
     win-detect-browsers   @ HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe +1ms
     win-detect-browsers Found chrome:
     win-detect-browsers   - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
     win-detect-browsers   @ HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe +1ms
     win-detect-browsers Found chrome:
     win-detect-browsers   - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
     win-detect-browsers   @ HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Google Chrome\shell\open\command +0ms
     win-detect-browsers Found chrome:
     win-detect-browsers   - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
     win-detect-browsers   @ HKLM\Software\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Google Chrome\shell\open\command +0ms
     win-detect-browsers Found chrome:
     win-detect-browsers   - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
     win-detect-browsers   @ Software\Classes\ChromeHTML\shell\open\command +1ms
     win-detect-browsers Found chrome:
     win-detect-browsers   - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
     win-detect-browsers   @ default location +0ms
     win-detect-browsers Found chrome (stable):
     win-detect-browsers   - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
     win-detect-browsers   @ Software\Wow6432Node\Google\Update\ClientState\{8A69D345-D564-463C-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}\UninstallString +1ms
     win-detect-browsers Error: not found: chrome.exe
     win-detect-browsers     at getNotFoundError (S:\Apps\Scoop\persist\nodejs-lts\cache\_npx\934b55640a35deff\node_modules\which\lib\index.js:16:17)
     win-detect-browsers     at which (S:\Apps\Scoop\persist\nodejs-lts\cache\_npx\934b55640a35deff\node_modules\which\lib\index.js:77:9) +165ms
   
4. vweevers commented on Nov 22, 2025

   

   vweevers

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   Looks safe to remove, we have plenty of other ways to find Chrome.

   #91

   👍React with 👍1Reacted by Temm
5. vweevers

   closed this as completedin f2286f6on Nov 22, 2025
6. vweevers commented on Nov 22, 2025

   

   vweevers

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   Fixed in 8.0.3.