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I recently installed Chromium on Windows 7 and 10 using chocolatey. However, every time I open Chromium I get a yellow warning box stating "Google API keys are missing. Some functionality of Chromium will be disabled".

I do not plan on using any Google related services, so I wanted to disable these messages from now on.

• Open Control Panel and go to System.

• Next go to Advanced system settings. In the Advanced tab, click on the Environment Variables button.

• In the System variables section, add the 3 following Environment Variables and values:
  1. GOOGLE_API_KEY: no
  2. GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID: no
  3. GOOGLE DEFAULT CLIENT_SECRET: no

• Log out and log back in for the changes to take effect.

Resources¶

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21276763/google-api-keys-missing-warning-message-when-using-chromium-portable