Category Archives: browser

Security: Chromium Edge 81.0.416.64 released

Microsoft released a security update for the Chromium Edge browser on April 23, 2020 (see ADV200002). This update fixes the vulnerabilities CVE-2020-6458, CVE-2020-6459 und CVE-2020-6460. The new Chromium Edge can be downloaded from this website.

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Chrome 81.0.4044.122 with security fixes released

[German]Google released the update to Chrome 81.0.4044.122 on April 21, 2020. This is an unscheduled security update which closes several (critical) vulnerabilities.

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Microsoft Edge Privacy-Whitepaper

[German]Microsoft has published an overview of various privacy settings for the new Edge Browser. There the settings accessible via edge://settings/ are documented.

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Chromium Edge Security Update

Microsoft has released a security update für Chromium Edge browser (see ADV200002). Released on April 17, 2020, Edge 81.0.416.58 addresses vulnerability CVE-2020-6457. The new Chromium Edge may be downloaded from this website.

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Chrome 81.0.4044.113 with security fixes

[German]Another small addendum – already on April 14, 2020 Google released the update to Chrome 81.0.4044.113. This is a security update.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Microsoft Edge 81.0.416.53 released

[German]An anonymous blog reader left this comment, pointing out, that Microsoft has releaded Chromium Edge 81 in stable channel.  I updated the browser in Windows 7 and got version 81.0.416.53.

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Microsoft-Edge: Windows 7 Support, Update Error 0x80040154

[German]Microsoft has now given a date for the Edge Browser to be supported on Windows 7 SP1. In addition, testers get the update error 0x80040154 in the canary builds.

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Firefox 75: Telemetry reports the default browser to Mozilla

[German]The just released Firefox 75 comes in the Windows version with a nasty surprise. A telemetry function transmits daily the used operating system as well as the standard browser to Mozilla.

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Chrome 81 released

[German]Google's developers have released the Chrome 81 on 7 March 2020. The browser update closes 32 security holes in total and comes with the Web NFC API.

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Firefox 75 and 68.7.0esr released

[German]Mozilla's developers have released the version 75.0.0 and the version and 68.7.0esr of the Firefox browser on April 7, 2020. These are new major updates for the browser. Addition: Information from the release notes added.

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