Chromium update fixes 5th zero-day exploit for 2024
In Google's release notes for the latest Chromium 124.0.6367.201 source code it is mentioned that this release fixes a zero-day vulnerability. Beware: this is already the 5th zero-day which was reported and fixed in Chromium in 2024.
This vulnerability is already actively exploited in the wi
Well, let's just say it's a small price to pay for the unclogging of the previous 200+ held back packages. Good thing we have https://snapshot.debian.org/ to "roll back" a little!
It's amazing to me that #chromium devs (who are literally nameless, as their new bug tracking system hides their names/email address) decided that wayland breakage is not any kind of high priority blocker for a stable release. https://crbug.com/329678163
[some context for that second pic; that comment was made by a chromium developer on March 25th; it was clearly never marked as a blocker, and three weeks later on Apr 16th chromium v124 was marked 'stable'.]
pd...@chromium.org #15 Mar 25, 2024 03:43PM +cc ui/base/wayland owners. Should this be marked as a release blocker?
I paid for a subscription. And they are now effectively blocking #Firefox, at least on #Linux. Every fetch requires me to "verify I'm a human" so none of the images or #javascript load. It works in #chromium (for now...?)
Assis sur sa position dominante Google Chrome n'évolue plus (ou pas dans le bon sens, voire la tentative de Manifest v3 pour les WebExtensions), alors que Firefox a progressivement regagné le terrain perdu et même consolidé de l'avance.
Ich nutze für einige Webseiten #Chromium. Eine Sache, die mir dort gefällt, ist der leichte Wechsel zwischen Profilen. Beim #Firefox muss das immer über den Aufruf firefox -P und Auswahl des Profils passieren. Nutzt ihr Profile im Firefox? Wie wechselt ihr zwischen den Profilen?
I think it’s a bit weird to be drawing comparisons between #Safari and #InternetExplorer. Safari doesn’t and likely will never have the web browser market share and thus complete dominance that IE had. Its market share is tiny in comparison. A better comparison would be the #Chrome browser and the engine itself built on (yes it’s important to include the engine too) and you’ll see that Google’s dominance is more far reaching than Safari on iOS and is probably on the same level as IE back in the day at this point.
The “browser choice” warriors love to focus on iOS and ignore the bigger issue of the dominance of the #Chromium engine in the wider web browser market. All it’s doing is handing the keys of the web over to Google.
Needing to switch from #firefox to #chromium once everybody's dinner orders were already in the cart because of browser compatibility issues is . . . well, it's irritating.
Attention #Debian Sid users: latest #chromium package (v. 123.0.6312.58-1) update is broken. Lots of pages crashing, some load fine for a minute or so, then freeze. Impossible to work on O365 on it. Holding on to your current version is highly advised (until at least this passes!)
@AAKL
"It’s worth noting that #Firefox is the only mainstream browser built on an independent, #opensource browser engine whose roots don’t go back to Apple’s #WebKit engine. Google based its Blink engine on WebKit, and Blink powers both #Chrome and #Chromium, the open-source browser upon which most other modern browsers are built, including #Opera, #Brave, and Microsoft #Edge."
PSA to everyone to not use brave browser @brave, the CEO of Brave Software is bigoted (donated to anti-lgbtqia+ organizations trying to ban gay marriage in the past and still has never addressed it or apologized) and was also against the Covid Lockdowns and is anti-vax. Using brave browser contributes to oppression of LGBTQIA+ ppl and contributes to brave software financially through ads and other means.
I recommend anyone still using brave browser to switch to ungoogled-chromium as a non-bigoted degoogled chromium-based browser alternative. @floccus is a good browser extension to use on ungoogled-chromium to sync your bookmarks.
@syntaxseed You just put words on one of my largest problems of staying organized on my devices. Pretty much all of my other applications have ways of neatly organizing everything, while #Firefox constantly has hundreds of tabs open. I looked at #Chromium's tab organizing features and tried them for a while, but they didn't solve much, and my unfamiliarity with Chromium as a whole made it even more painful to use bookmarks than in Firefox.
Why didn't I see anyone talking about #Chromium adding (in GUI) support for configuring/disabling JavaScript JIT and WebAssembly in 122? Seems like a killer security feature.
Pq não existem browsers não-"indie" usando o motor Gecko ou, ou que sejam um fork do Firefox, enquanto tem trocentos do chromium? É questão da licença?
So every app using it has all of #Electron’s disadvantages:
• lowest-common-denominator #GUI obviously foreign to the host OS
• non-portable shims to integrate with host OS features
• an individually bespoke runtime consuming storage, memory, and compute as if it were a separate virtual machine