Goog says patch⁵⁰ your Chrome Google has dropped 50 patches for its flagship Chrome browser plugging holes and handed $30,000 to a lone bug hunter who reported a dangerous sandbox-busting attack. A clever chained combo of multiple flaws, reported to Google and patched, allowed attackers to crawl out of Chrome's security sandbox and execute code remotely. …
Sometimes I wonder if any of the fuckups MS make are by design. Spyware by accident certainly fits the bill though. These are the people that give you a BSOD in a regular update cycle and make Windows 8.1 an mandatory upgrade while making you unable for you to upgrade to it.
It just means when a vuln is discover Google are more in control of the patching cycle which is an extremely good thing.
The problem with Flash player is not so much the player as the execrable update process. Adobe's Flash updater makes users run a startup process, go through half a dozen clicks (while their browser is closed), avoid installing crapware toolbars by accident and generally does everything to discourage people from using it at all. Is it any wonder people don't keep their plugin up to date?
Well, the browser in BlackBerry 10 is so good that I wish I *could* run an ad blocker and Ghostery and automatic cookie disposal like I can run in Firefox and Chrome.
Fast and slick and beats everything but Chrome on the HTML5 test. (as of last week)
Lovely minimalist interface too but a bit of a shock.
In fact, the OS comes with Flash but I keep that disabled.
Lest this sound like an ad-
Plugins and extensions come with security risks:
Adblock Plus 1.8.3 on Chrome comes with "Access your data on all websites" and "Access your tabs and browsing history".
These two permissions are very common in Chrome world.
Do you trust your plug-in author?
And text only browsers such as Lynx aren't very useful on today's Web. They would be if Web designers coded for disabled folks using Web standards but they don't as evidenced by viewing pages on the obsolete Android browser or in Lynx.
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Sorry I got away from the topic there but yes, the best "just browse" browser is on BlackBerry
You might want to see if you can still grab a copy of Opera Mini or iCab for your platform.
Opera Mini will strip out ads and compress your graphics to reduce your bandwidth.
iCab (for the Mac) came with a button informing you how compliant the HTML on the page is. [and that's another story]
Well it turns out that the lovely DRM that google is going to stuff in chrome will let Netflix run on linux.
I think it is a trojan horse, to allow the <insert expletive> companies from getting us to run their crappy walled gardens for them.
DRM should be used SOLELY to verify the code, not hide it.
If you want to hide your code from the serfs, that's what SAAS is for...
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I'm seriously thinking of switching from Chrome. With every update and release the thing seems to hoover more and more memory. It does this on my OS X device and my Windows 7 device. Really can't understand why it has become so bad, but it is getting to the point where Firefox seems like a viable alternative unless they fix this.
I've noticed the same thing; rediculous RAM usage on desktop systems and have had another look at Firefox as a result.
Firefox seems to have improved from a few years ago, and most of the same add ons as in Chrome seem to be readily avaliable as well if you are after them.
In terms of this article though, Mozilla currently only release a 64 bit version on Linux, though someone has forked Windoes Firefox and compiled it for 64 bit, with pretty decent results (as long as you are using an Intel processor) https://www.waterfoxproject.org/.
I've been using Pale Moon for some things; not bad. It's a mod of Firefox 24.x, so no newfangled GUI, and readily available in 64-bit. Only problem is FF24 is becoming obsolete already (it's a whole year old) and FF29+ is crap... what to do? Oh nice - fork Firefox! (http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5440)
Still using Chrome/Chromium for development though... it has the best devtools and the most users, by far. That's the way it is...
Google's Chrome browser, running of Google's Android OS, on a Google Nexus Tablet. All fresh and clean and up-to-date. Move your finger too quickly between tabs (details omitted) and the browser locks up.
So I tried Firefox for Android. Gawd almighty, what a pig's breakfast that is.
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