Tag Archives: Chrome

Escaping from Chrome Sandbox

[German]A brief hint for people who are interested in browser security and the sandbox. It's about how to escape from the sandbox in the Chrome browser.

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Microsoft Security Advisory Notification Chromium Edge

[German]Microsoft has released a security advisory for released security updates for the Chromium-based Edge Browser on January 28, 2020.

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News from Microsoft about Chrome and Edge

[German]In this article I would like to summarize some information about the Chromium Edge and the Chrome Browser under Office 365 Pro Plus, which I've seen within the last hours. For example, Microsoft wants to force Bing search in the … Continue reading

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Chrome 79.0.3945.130

[German] Google's developers have just released Chrome 79.0.3945.130. The browser update closes 11 vulnerabilities in total, but Google don't reaveal details about that.

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Chrome support for Windows 7 until at least mid 2021

[German]Google has announced recently to support the Google Chrome browser also over the end of support for Windows 7 SP1 until mid 2021. Here is some information on the topic.

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Google Chrome: Extension to show www again

In Google Chrome the www in the URL of the displayed web page in the browser has been removed. Lawrence Abrams explains at Bleeping Computer how you can build your own extension to this display the www again.

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Google Chrome/SQLite: New Magellan 2.0 vulnerabilities

[German]In the Google Chrome (Chromium) browser (and other software that uses SQLite), there were some vulnerabilities, called Magellan 2.0, in SQLite, which was closed with the update to Chrome 79.0.3945.79 or with a SQLite code commit of December 13, 2019.

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Android: Chrome 79 Rollout stopped due to data loss

[German]Google has temporarily stopped the rollout of the Chrome 79 app for Android. The reason: Users may lose data due to a bug in Webview – and other apps are affected as well.

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Chrome 79: Das ‘AW Snap’ issue is back

[German]Users switching to the freshly released Google Chrome 79 browser may facing again the 'AW Snap' problem. The browser tabs are going into the "White Screen of Death" mode and displays the message "Aw, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying … Continue reading

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Chrome 78.0.3904.108 released

[German]Google released a security update for Chrome 78.0.3904.108 on November 18, 2019. This update patches 5 security vulnerabilities, two of which are critical and returns the context menu command 'Close other tab'.

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