Chromium's WebRTC zero-day fix arrives in Microsoft Edge

Microsoft has followed Google's lead and issued an update for its Edge browser following the arrival of a WebRTC zero-day. The Windows giant uses the Chromium engine in its latest browser. As such, when something needs urgent fixing in Chrome, one can expect Edge to follow not far behind. For CVE-2022-2294 and CVE-2022-2295, a …

[Anonymous Coward]

Are they really trying to jam Edge down peoples throats?

Or are they just trying to get to the point they can bury the toxic corpse of IE in a lead lined coffin and not have it shoot out of the grave the first time someone clicks a UNC path?

I don't get the impression that M$ loves edge all that much but I also get the impression M$ has some regrets about IE.

[joed]

Re: Are they really trying to jam Edge down peoples throats?

If you're not certain that M$ jams Edge down peoples throats just try using Windows. Sooner or later you'll end up in Edge, peddling Bing search results and with some nags to change default browser (if not already reset "for you"), import your browser settings and sing in to MS account. And that crappy new tab page (and news and interest adware on taskbar to spare some change for poor MS).

[fg_swe]

Lack Of Memory Safety: The Gift That Keeps Giving

C and C++ should be phased out of any software engineering project which is exposed to external input and/or security-critical.

In other words C and C++ are shoddy engineering, we already had it better in the Algol Mainframes.

Here are the details: http://sappeur.ddnss.de/Sappeur_Cyber_Security.pdf