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Google Chrome Government Deadline—72 Hours To Update Or Delete Your Browser
Forbes ^ | 06 02 2024 | Zak Doffman

Posted on 06/02/2024 6:57:43 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

For Google Chrome and its two-billion-plus desktop users, May will go down as a month to forget: four zero-days and emergency update warnings inside ten days, launched a tidal wave of wall-to-wall headlines that were hard to miss.

The US government has warned federal employees to install May’s emergency updates or to cease using Chrome. And they have issued a June 3 deadline for the first of those updates to be applied. It’s now June 1, and so this is a timely reminder that you should ensure you have updated Chrome inside the next 72 hours.

Others organizations should do the same, and mandate full employee compliance.

Credit to Google for the speed and efficiency with which each emergency update was released and announced, notwithstanding the awkward PR. But there remains an urgency for users the world over the ensure the updates have installed. Chrome will update automatically, but users must then close and relaunch their browser.

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I never used Google Chrome. This is the first I'm hearing about this.
1 posted on 06/02/2024 6:57:43 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

I don’t use Google Chrome either. I got Brave, Slimjet and Chromium browsers, but no Google Chrome. I refuse to use it.


2 posted on 06/02/2024 7:04:35 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: yesthatjallen

I never use it either, but have it on my Win-7 Pro X64 system. Is it worth updating?


3 posted on 06/02/2024 7:06:01 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ducttape45

Hubby’s work computer uses that. Passed this along to him.


4 posted on 06/02/2024 7:06:20 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: yesthatjallen

Don’t use Google Chrome or Google search.


5 posted on 06/02/2024 7:09:13 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: yesthatjallen

I will gladly delete Chrome from my computer.

I only downloaded Chrome because I needed to have a browser compatible with the system of a firm for which I was consulting two years ago.

I haven’t used it since.


6 posted on 06/02/2024 7:32:04 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Get the unGoogled Chromium. It is based on Chrome but all the spy crappola from the CCP is cut out. Its coding is also open.

A problem is that there is not a version that runs on <Win10.


7 posted on 06/02/2024 7:39:28 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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Is it worth updating?

It's worth deleting. Many people believe google is a creation of the CIA and it's whole purpose is to collect personal data on everyone(anything you say can and will be used against you) and sway opinion via google search.

8 posted on 06/02/2024 7:41:30 AM PDT by Pollard (Will work for high tunnel money!)
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To: yesthatjallen

I use Firefox. When I need to use Chrome, I use Comodo Dragon.


9 posted on 06/02/2024 7:42:58 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Pollard

I gave up my Android phone to get rid of Google NEVER use Google as a search engine either!!


10 posted on 06/02/2024 7:43:36 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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“I never use it either, but have it on my Win-7 Pro X64 system. Is it worth updating?”

chrome refuses to update on W7 beyond version 109.0.5414.120


11 posted on 06/02/2024 7:45:28 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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To: ducttape45

I also use Brave, but my impression is that it was based off Chrome. So are we vulnerable as well?


12 posted on 06/02/2024 7:46:16 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: yesthatjallen

Google wants to have a monopoly, so that they can censor and manipulate thought unimpeded.

Google is the Orwellian Ministry of Truth.


13 posted on 06/02/2024 7:47:00 AM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: yesthatjallen

Google is an on going CIA operation. One would be wise to take no chances and quit using it.


14 posted on 06/02/2024 7:57:41 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: Pollard

I should do that, but some of the medical websites I need, only accept Chrome, and won’t function correctly with my Opera, Pale Moon or Brave browsers. They ‘specify’ Chrome.


15 posted on 06/02/2024 8:31:27 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I don’t normally use it either, but when a webpage doesn’t open or work correctly in other browsers, I give Chrome a try. When I checked this morning there was no warning because it hat updated to the latest version automatically.


16 posted on 06/02/2024 8:32:32 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: bobbo666

I have Chromium Version 125.0.6422.112 (Official Build) snap (64-bit)

Do I need to do anything ?

I only use it maybe once a month.

Its the toy I have that works with TamperMonkey.


17 posted on 06/02/2024 8:33:20 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: yesthatjallen

Federal employees. So basically they found a security hole, and fixed it, and federal employees who use Chrome have to get the update. This isn’t actually terribly exciting.


18 posted on 06/02/2024 8:34:41 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: George from New England

p.s. I am on :

Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.92.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-94-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i5-10400 CPU @ 2.90GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 630


19 posted on 06/02/2024 8:35:21 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006)
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To: catnipman

Yes, just notiuced that, and my usual browser, Opera, uses the Chromium engine.


20 posted on 06/02/2024 8:35:34 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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