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+Maintaining an updated Chrome Browser on Slackware is now made
+easier with this small program, "google-chrome-the-latest".
+It is a simple python script that checks what is the latest
+version available and updates it on your Slackware box.
+
+It identifies a new version by parsing the web-page at
+https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-version/chrome
+and comparing with the chrome version number currently installed.
+Chrome is then downloaded directly from Google site, converted to
+txz using the standard rpm2txz command, and upgraded.
+
+You can run this script manually or automatically with the
+provided cron.hourly script. The cron script will attempt to
+identify which user to notify, otherwise you can edit it and set
+the variable USERNAME=’your username’
+
+In order to avoid excessive hits on whatismybrowser.com actual
+checks are limited to "once a day", but you can bypass this with the
+arguments "install", "upgrade" or "update". These all mean then
+same and imply a download from Google and perform an install or
+an upgrade, if one is required of course.
+Normally it is asked if you want to install the new version, but
+providing the argument "silent" will just update with no
+human intervention.
+The argument "gui" will download the Chrome RPM allowing you to
+manually upgrade the browser.
+
+Note: This program runs in the background.  To collect your input,
+dialogs appear and disappear. Don't be alarmed and wait for the
+program to end.
+
+Workflows:
+
+1. Every day the program checks if a new browser is available
+   and notifies you through a pop-up window. This is default behavior.
+
+2. You can start the program manually using the icon available
+   in the desktop menu to trigger the download, check and
+   install/upgrade the browse if required.
+
+3. From the command line, if you don't have yet Chrome installed
+   you can do so by simply by running:
+   /opt/google-chrome-the-latest/google-chrome-the-latest.py install
+
+4. From the command line, you can force a Chrome download and
+   upgrade if required, without any pop-up window, with:
+   /opt/google-chrome-the-latest/google-chrome-the-latest.py \
+     silent upgrade