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If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

OriginalGriff5-Feb-21 8:32

5-Feb-21 8:32

Chrome zero-day browser bug found – patch now! – Naked Security[^]
"Exploit exists in the wild" means that the bad guys are using it.
So check and update - if you are using a version lower than 88.0.4324.150 (and I was) you should update.

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

charlieg5-Feb-21 9:02

charlieg

5-Feb-21 9:02

thanks Griff

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

W∴ Balboos, GHB5-Feb-21 9:04

W∴ Balboos, GHB

5-Feb-21 9:04

Quote:
If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Option 2: change browser to FireFox

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Forogar 5-Feb-21 9:07

Forogar

5-Feb-21 9:07

Thanks OG, now I am on version 88.0.4324.150 on all my machines.

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Slacker0075-Feb-21 9:20

Slacker007

5-Feb-21 9:20

as soon as I read this, I went to chrome -> help -> about and I can see it was in the middle of updating.

Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

20212a5-Feb-21 9:52

20212a

5-Feb-21 9:52

Slacker007 wrote:
I went to chrome -> help -> about and I can see it was in the middle of updating.

Actually, clicking help about actually kicks off the update process. It's terrible.

Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Chris Maunder5-Feb-21 13:45

Chris Maunder

5-Feb-21 13:45

I clicked the green "update" badge at the top right of my Chrome browser. It closed the browser, then 5 seconds later reopened the pages I was on.

Done.

I wish more updates worked this well.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Gary R. Wheeler7-Feb-21 9:39

Gary R. Wheeler

7-Feb-21 9:39

20212 wrote:
Actually, clicking help about actually kicks off the update process. It's terrible.

I'm curious, and will ask the obvious question: Why is it 'terrible'?

The only circumstance I can think of where an automatic update would be undesirable would be if you are debugging a web app that has a bug that is version-specific. If that were that case, you'd already have automatic updates disabled or otherwise circumvented.

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

20212a8-Feb-21 1:10

20212a

8-Feb-21 1:10

Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
The only circumstance I can think of where an automatic update would be undesirable would be if you are debugging a web app that has a bug that is version-specific.

Unless it's Microsoft and then everyone complains about the automatic updates.

Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Gary R. Wheeler10-Feb-21 12:05

Gary R. Wheeler

10-Feb-21 12:05

Personally, I've only had one Microsoft Update cause a problem, and that was alleviated by updating the antivirus package I was using at the time.

Professionally we have Microsoft Updates disabled on the industrial PC's we sell as part of our equipment. This is due to legal terminology in the warranty our customers receive on the equipment. They are free to turn updates back on, and most do, but that triggers a clause in the warranty that holds us blameless in the event of Windows-related issues.

My only gripe with Microsoft Updates at work is that corporate IT has to fondle every update as it goes past and get it all sticky with bodily fluids before it gets to our machines. Dead | X|

Software Zen: delete this;

Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Eddy Vluggen5-Feb-21 9:43

Eddy Vluggen

5-Feb-21 9:43

So a friend of mine made fun of me for using "Edge"..

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

David O'Neil5-Feb-21 9:46

David O'Neil

5-Feb-21 9:46

Edge is based on Chrome. Check for an update! I use Vivaldi, which is also based on Chrome. It had an update that Griff's post pointed out. It brought it up to the Chrome engine he specified.

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Eddy Vluggen5-Feb-21 9:59

Eddy Vluggen

5-Feb-21 9:59

David O'Neil wrote:
Edge is based on Chrome

No, the engine is.

David O'Neil wrote:
Check for an update!

Ehr.. no?

David O'Neil wrote:
I use Vivaldi, which is also based on Chrome. It had an update that Griff's post pointed out. It brought it up to the Chrome engine he specified.

The engine, as you pointed out, I already use. And it part of the OS, so no need to install anything else.

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

OriginalGriff5-Feb-21 9:52

OriginalGriff

5-Feb-21 9:52

Bear in mind that Edge is Chromium based, and so is Chrome - so it's very likely that this kind of exploit will work on Edge as well, until MS patch it - and their record on patches is ... um ... patchy ... Laugh | :laugh:

I'd strongly suggest you check Edge for updates just in case (though MS tend to react quite slowly with fixes and patches even compared to Google)

Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Eddy Vluggen5-Feb-21 10:04

Eddy Vluggen

5-Feb-21 10:04

OriginalGriff wrote:
Bear in mind that Edge is Chromium based, and so is Chrome - so it's very likely that this kind of exploit will work on Edge as well, until MS patch it - and their record on patches is ... um ... patchy ...

You know how media works; if it was, they'd hammer hard on that. And if it is not, I loose nothing from it.

OriginalGriff wrote:
I'd strongly suggest you check Edge for updates just in case (though MS tend to react quite slowly with fixes and patches even compared to Google)

Even if they patch later, I prefer anything (!) non-Google. Gives MS time to verify there's no malware included.

And moved my account here from Google to Protonmail.

Google is a damned security risc. Ever seen those little texts that tell you not to share information of the mail they sent you? Well, too late, because is already shared with Google.

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Gary R. Wheeler10-Feb-21 12:13

Gary R. Wheeler

10-Feb-21 12:13

My problem with Edge is not Edge itself, but a recent update effectively removed Internet Explorer. This is not an issue for me (I use Chrome, thank the Maker), but for my 83 year-old mother it's a big deal. When you double clicked on the Internet Explorer icon, it brought up an IE window for about a second, which then closed and was replaced by an Edge window. The only Elephant | [mastadon]

ing setting they moved from IE to Edge was the Elephant | [mastadon]

ing FSM-damn home page Mad | :mad:

! C'mon assholes, both of these are your products.

I copied Mom's favorites over and set things up to make her more comfortable. We walked through her logging in to each of her web sites (they didn't carry that over either; morons) and made sure printing worked correctly.

Not everyone is 19-26, you bunch of bigoted ageist pricks.

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Gerry Schmitz6-Feb-21 9:52

Gerry Schmitz

6-Feb-21 9:52

I don't use Chrome: very busy in the background even when I wasn't using it.

I don't use Edge: won't scale on my Surface (neither does the "MS Office" web based install).

Only FireFox seems to do what I need on all my devices; out of the box.

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

OriginalGriff6-Feb-21 10:01

OriginalGriff

6-Feb-21 10:01

Strange: Chrome and Office both worked on my Surface Pro 3, and are working on my Surface Go 2.

Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

Gerry Schmitz6-Feb-21 10:43

Gerry Schmitz

6-Feb-21 10:43

I have the "first GO" ... I suspect that might be it; but since it's MS, I keep questioning "why!!". And it's not that "old".

The other day, it effectively locked me out by launching (on itself) a trial Office, in full screen mode ... except it was scaled so large there was not a single control / button in sight. All I could do was reboot and jam / intercept until I could delete all traces of these "free favors".

My own UWP apps run great on it; scale properly, etc.

Only Edge / MS web stuff misbehaves.

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Re: If you are using Chrome, you should check for updates.

OriginalGriff6-Feb-21 11:13

OriginalGriff

6-Feb-21 11:13

Well there's your problem: you are expecting a MS app to run on an MS OS, on MS hardware ... Laugh | :laugh:

I have to say that neither of my Surfaces have had any problems, but I don't use 360 (hate the subscription model) - I use Office 2019 and have no difficulties (except swearing at Word, but everybody does that).

RIP Christopher Plummer

Cp-Coder5-Feb-21 8:24

Cp-Coder

5-Feb-21 8:24

Actor Christopher Plummer dies at 91[^] Rose | [Rose]

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Re: RIP Christopher Plummer

OriginalGriff5-Feb-21 8:33

OriginalGriff

5-Feb-21 8:33

You know what this means, don't you?

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Re: RIP Christopher Plummer

PIEBALDconsult5-Feb-21 8:45

PIEBALDconsult

5-Feb-21 8:45

You should watch Dreamscape instead.

Re: RIP Christopher Plummer

Cp-Coder5-Feb-21 8:51

Cp-Coder

5-Feb-21 8:51

Quote:
Reruns of that damn singing nun

Let the nun sing her lungs out! Just as long as she doesn't interfere with my watching The Expanse! Laugh | :laugh:

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Re: RIP Christopher Plummer

OriginalGriff5-Feb-21 8:55

OriginalGriff

5-Feb-21 8:55

I'm trying to watch that really slowly, so it doesn't run out ... just watched episode 3 of season 5 today, and it's not easy to not watch episode 4 ...

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