Google To Resume Chrome Updates it Paused Last Week Due To COVID-19

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google paused Chrome updates last week when it canceled the Chrome 81 release in order to avoid causing severe disruptions to web developers, system administrators, and its own engineers, most working from home or having resources strained due to ever-worsening coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. In a blog post on the Chrome blog today, Google said it is now ready to resume work on Chrome. The company said that starting next week, the current Chrome 80 release will start receiving security updates once again. Chrome v81, initially scheduled to be released on March 17, was rescheduled for April 7, at which time, web developers and system administrators would have had the time to adapt to their new working conditions.

HAWKINS-DAMN YOU GOOGLE!

[CajunArson]

When you refuse to completely shut down in fear it just means Trump has won!
Do your patriotic duty and go out of business!

Re: Good.

[ttfkam]

If your staff needs time to set up their home work environment, to plan home schooling for their kids, to handle care for parents/grandparents, the schedule can definitely slip.

A pandemic does not happen in a vacuum. It affects the lives and routines of real people, even if those people are fortunate enough to be part of the segment of society where working from home is even feasible.

So instead of trying to push code that wasn't ready, may not have the attention for auditing it needs, they skipped this one release, evaluated what the new normal would entail, and then planned to continue on schedule moving forward.

Make sense?

Bad idea

[xack]

Pushing 100 MB updates when internet bandwidth and tech support capacity is still limited is a disaster. Now that HTML5 is mostly rolled out there is no need to have rapid release anymore. Chrome should make Firefox style ESR releases now instead and release it when the virus has passed.

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[Retired ICS]

There is no "tech support" for Chrome. It is free malware given away with no "tech support". There is no shortage of Internet bandwidth. This is just some schmuck who needs to be seen "doing something" no matter how stupid that something is.

Google and Microsoft are running out of capacity. However that has nothing to do with available Internet Bandwidth. That has to do with those companies and how they deliberately chose to operate and how their stupid customers failed to perform adequate risk assessme

Code from home

[AHuxley]

Why are the experts not working from home?
Its just code? Type it in. Test it.
A secure network and a lot of expert workers?
What was so special about a physical building for an ad company?

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[yes-but-no]

How else managers feel the ego boost to see the subordinates bow them around in the break room? A power pyramid can exist only if it can exhibit and validate the power. You need humans in proximity to play that game.