Chrome 72 Arrives With Code Injection Blocking, New Developer Features (venturebeat.com) 103
Following Mozilla's footsteps, Google has released Chrome 72 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. From a report: The release includes code injection blocking and new developer features. You can update to the latest version now using Chrome's built-in updater or download it directly from google.com/chrome. With over 1 billion users, Chrome is both a browser and a major platform that web developers must consider. In fact, with Chrome's regular additions and changes, developers often must make an effort to stay on top of everything available -- as well as what has been deprecated or removed -- most notably, Chrome 72 removes support for Chromecast setup on a computer. To set up a Chromecast, you'll now need to use a mobile device.
As this isn't a major release, there aren't many new features to cover. Chrome 72 for Windows, however, blocks code injections, reducing crashes caused by third-party software. The initiative to block code injections in Chrome started last year, with warnings letting users know that Chrome was fighting back. Those warnings are now gone, and Chrome blocks code injections full stop. Further reading: All the Chromium-based browsers.
As this isn't a major release, there aren't many new features to cover. Chrome 72 for Windows, however, blocks code injections, reducing crashes caused by third-party software. The initiative to block code injections in Chrome started last year, with warnings letting users know that Chrome was fighting back. Those warnings are now gone, and Chrome blocks code injections full stop. Further reading: All the Chromium-based browsers.
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Do you honestly believe if Mozilla had 99% market share, they wouldn't be abusing it?
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Re:Support Mozilla (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes. They are a non-profit versus the largest ad company in the world.
What would they be abusing and why would they abusive?
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And that has what to do with having a web browser monopoly?
Re:Support Mozilla (Score:4, Insightful)
It woudn't be healthy if mozilla share were 99% either. But that's neither here nor there: it isn't and there's no plausible scenario in which they turn into a monopolist, not to mention the fact that they're a non-profit whose interests are perhaps less likely to push them to abuse than companies peddling your private data and opinions to the highest bidder.
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Do you honestly believe if Mozilla had 99% market share, they wouldn't be abusing it?
EVERYONE abuses a monopoly position. This is why the world is far better off when monopolies are simply not allowed to exist.
Presently Mozilla is just a browser. They don't have a monopoly on search and operate massive content/ad service like Google does. Google is way more dangerous as they continue to exert ownership over more and more of the stack fueled by NIH ethos.
Google browser running on Google OS over Google transport (QUIC) to get to Google services and search sites hosted on Google (AMP). Som
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> This is why the world is far better off when monopolies are simply not allowed to exist.
I'm not sure I'd go THAT far with that ideology -- the answer isn't that clear cut IMHO. I'm going to play Devil's Advocate for a minute:
Governments have a monopoly on creating and enforcing Laws and Money. Do you really every Tom, Dick, and Harry creating and enforcing new Laws? I believe THAT is called Anarchy. One of the problems with Anarchy is that it doesn't scale.
I think part of the confusion is that Mono
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This is why the world is far better off when monopolies are simply not allowed to exist.
I'm not sure I'd go THAT far with that ideology -- the answer isn't that clear cut IMHO. I'm going to play Devil's Advocate for a minute:
Governments have a monopoly on creating and enforcing Laws and Money.
My remarks were in the context of commercial endeavors. It's quite a stretch to even attempt to apply the term to governance. I'm quite comfortable with my anti-monopoly sentiment generally.
The underlying reason for my belief is the observation power almost always corrupts the user. People are incapable of acting properly unless guided by an environment designed to reinforce good behavior.
All successful states by definition have obtained a monopoly interest on the use of violence yet inter and intra stat
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Re: Support Mozilla (Score:4, Informative)
Google doesn't hold a monopoly on search. Not within the US anyways.
Was just browsing yesterday's logs. 1400 hits from Google followed by 100 from Baidu of all things then Bing, Yandex and DDG each with about 40.
Assertion Google doesn't hold a monopoly on search is simply not a statement I care to waste my time entertaining.
Re:Support Mozilla (Score:4, Insightful)
The ideal would be for Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, as the dominant browser vendors to each have their own rendering engine and the driving factors being standards compliance and performance. As it is, three of those four (as well as a significant number of the long tail of alternative browsers) will soon be based on forks from a single codebase, and that means a monoculture where Google - an ad company of all things - is more equal than others. That's a horrible position to be in as a user and absolutely that position needs to be resisted if you care about the web. Equally, if the positions were reversed, abusive behavior or not, we should be promoting the use of browsers other than Firefox for exactly the same anti-monoculture reasons.
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Firefox keeps abusing their users by imposing interface and functionality changes even with a minority marketshare. I can't imagine what they would do with a 99% market share.
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If they really had a limited workforce, they would not be wasting time messing around with the damn interface and trying to add things that have no place in a fucking web browser.
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All they do is either make sure they don't work like any other browser ever created, or they simply copy Chrome as much as they can.
They've become the GIMP of the browser world.
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Do you honestly believe if Mozilla had 99% market share, they wouldn't be abusing it?
They never will, so how is this in any way relevant?
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Which change are you referring to specifically? How do you feel that the web is made worse by the changes in the new version of Chrome?
Or are you just whining in general?
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Chromium isn't a fork of Chrome, it's the other way around.
Chromium is open source, developed primarily by Google. Chrome is built on top of Chromium.
They just add Google account integration and telemetry.
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UTF-8 is unicode. It's one method of encoding unicode characters as multi-byte sequences.
The problem is going to be either:
Apple doesn't correctly set the Content-Encoding header when it makes HTTP requests
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Slashdot doesn't correctly support the content encoding being set.
Abuse of monopoly search position (Score:2)
The primary reason Google chrome malware has the market share it does is persistent scare/nag campaigns against competing browsers by those using Google.
Checked the new Audits panel feature (Score:5, Interesting)
Ran the audit against this page
5 vulnerabilities found in the Javascript libraries. 1 medium in jQuery 1.3.2, 3 high's in jQueryUI 1.7.2 and a medium in Handlebars 3.0.0
Overall audit scores high and low:
SEO: 91%
Performance 21%
I see where the priority lies.
That's with ad-blocking turned on too, I'd hate to see how bad it is without Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin
Good on ya /., you suck.
How about custom compiles that remove audio/video? (Score:2)
I was sitting in a meeting with my laptop reading CNN, when a video busted out and I did the Walk of Shame to take my laptop outside.
I have multiple adblocks, multiple autoplay blocks, have twiddled with Chrome settings multiple times to block autoplay, with zero long-term success since asshole advertisers are determined that you *WILL* watch this fucking video, no matter what.
A killer feature for Chrome/Firefox would be "the ability to be compiled without any audio/video support of *any* kind whatsoever",
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The ability for the browser to block ads is getting altered.
Find a great browser that allows a users to remove ads. That can respond to ad attempts on a users browser.
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fyi just mute the whole chrome while in office.