How to install Google Chrome 28+ on CentOS 6

Sadly, the Google Chrome browser no longer supports the most famous commercial distribution Red Hat and its free clones such as CentOS and Scientific Linux.
Yes, they’ve discontinued support for RHEL 6.X version as of Google Chrome and on other side, latest Firefox and Opera browsers run successfully on the same platforms.
Luckily, there is a script developed by Richard Lloyd, that automatically download and install latest Google Chrome browser by picking libraries from a more recent released distro and put those libraries in (/opt/google/chrome/lib) directory and then you can able to run Google Chrome on CentOS 6.X version.
# wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh
# chmod u+x install_chrome.sh
# ./install_chrome.sh
Sample Output
Google Chrome Installer 2.00 on the i686 platform
(C) Richard K. Lloyd 2013 <rklloyd@gmail.com>

*** Checking for an update to install_chrome.sh ...

--2013-07-18 17:27:02--  http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/version.dat
Resolving chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk... 193.110.246.53
Connecting to chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk|193.110.246.53|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5 [text/plain]
Saving to: âversion.datâ

100%[======================================>] 5           --.-K/s   in 0s

2013-07-18 17:27:02 (264 KB/s) - âversion.datâ

*** install_chrome.sh is already the latest version (2.00) - continuing ...

*** Determining latest Google Chrome version number ...

Step 3: Starting Chrome Web Browser

Start browser with non-root user.
# google-chrome &
Google Chrome Startup Screen

Google Chrome Startup Screen
Welcome screen of Chrome web browser.
Google Chrome Welcome Screen

Google Chrome Welcome Screen

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