Chrome browser and the end of the world. As we know it. For programmers only.

It was an inordinately wise programmer who said:

This automatic self-update of Chrome is the way that Chrome browser will quietly and unobtrusively turn into Chrome OS one day. And then...

Disclaimer: if you are not a software person you don't have to and, indeed, better not, pay attention to this. Let it be, it is beyond humans' ability to change anyway.