Google Chrome Volume on Mac OSX?

[afuna]

Lately I've been seeing Growl Notifications of a Google Chrome being mounted on my Mac, while I'm not running Chrome, and without my having done any action on my part. (I have been keeping Chrome around out of curiosity because I want to try the beta, but I haven't run it in a while).

I do not know what's been going on, but I can't find any way to turn it off -- I can't even figure out where to start looking. ps aux | grep -i google (look for "google" in all running processes) just shows me a GoogleTalkPlugin... and I don't know what that is for either, or where it is from.

I suspect there's something that's just trying to be helpful, but since I don't know what it is, and I don't recall giving anything permission to do this, I don't like it :p And not remembering whether I gave it permission or not, may be my memory being faulty, but whether I gave it permission before or not, I can't find any way to turn it off now.

So now I'm trying to figure out how to purge Google Talk Plugin and Google Chrome from my system. Anyone run into any of this behavior before? Any idea how to stop it?

ETA: Mrrrr, found it. Google Software Update was installed automatically on my computer, probably when I installed Gears, or checked out Google Earth or Google Chrome. I don't mind being asked for permission to check for updates when I start a program, but having something automatically update without notification or permission makes me twitchy, so I've removed all the google software I don't need, leaving only gears.

I'll also do this as well: http://www.google.com/support/installer/bin/answer.py?answer=100386 and hope that doesn't kill gears.

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[baggyeyes]

Sometimes, I just want to slap the occasionally awesome Google upside the head with a a pile of soggy spaghetti.

Must be hungry.