Chrome Browser

[Lee B]

If you use the Chrome Browser, make sure it's up to date due to several serious current security exploits.

 

"Chrome is up to date

Version 94.0.4606.61 (Official Build)"

[Lion EA]

Thanx for the reminder. I just checked, and Chrome had not finished it's last update for some reason and told me to relaunch. Now it gives the above Version #.

[Lee B]

Due to several more current serious exploits, Chrome has released an unscheduled update.

Chrome is up to date

Version 94.0.4606.71 (Official Build) (64-bit)

[Lion EA]

Thank you. I'm on ...61 so will update now.

[Christian]

I thought they updated the browser regularly. I just updated mine thanks. I had not seen any news about security issues with it but I am no techie.

[Lion EA]

I discovered that I do have it set to update. But there was a message that it needed to finish, telling me to reload Chrome. I was a bit surprised, because I exit Chrome each night and reload every morning. The update must've started today and was waiting for my next relaunch. All good now.

[Abby Normal]

Neither Chrome nor Edge will update automatically for me, most of the time. I've resorted to putting the installer for both, right on the desktop, so I can update manually, whenever SUMo (Software Update Monitor) tells me there's an update, or whenever I see a news article about either.

[jklcpa]

I, too, had to start the update manually and was then prompted to restart the browser to finish the install.  I find Chrome to be slower and so only use it for a few sites that won't work on Firefox.

 

[jklcpa]

I do have Chrome for Android on both my tablet and my phone, and both of those are still on ver *.61 with the notation as being up-to-date.

Has anyone read about or seen a more recent version for mobile applications? 

ETA - never mind, that is the most recent version available for Android. 

Edited October 4, 2021 by jklcpa

[joanmcq]

On 10/4/2021 at 6:36 AM, jklcpa said:

I, too, had to start the update manually and was then prompted to restart the browser to finish the install.  I find Chrome to be slower and so only use it for a few sites that won't work on Firefox.

 

Me too! Currently only my bank accounts at my credit union & the NV Board of Accountancy.  I don’t like all the snooping I’ve read about Chrome doing.

[Lee B]

Several more active serious security exploits have popped up so there is another unscheduled update!

 

"Chrome is up to date

Version 94.0.4606.81 (Official Build) (64-bit)"

[Lee B]

On 10/5/2021 at 1:18 PM, joanmcq said:

. . . .  I don’t like all the snooping I’ve read about Chrome doing.

You could make that statement about almost every every tech company with an online presence. 

[michaelmars]

I would never run an update on a deadline week.

[Lee B]

Well, since my last tax return's efile was acknowledged on the 6th, I can let it rip.

[Catherine]

19 hours ago, cbslee said:

Well, since my last tax return's efile was acknowledged on the 6th, I can let it rip.

Go ahead, rub it in, see if we care!  (I think all of mine, that are going to be done before the deadline, have been submitted.  There are always the one or two who won't send me back sig docs - and in a couple of cases, outstanding data docs - for weeks yet. That's on them, not me.)

Guess it's time to break out the work on the longtime nonfilers again. Whee!

[Lee B]

Chrome is up to date

Version 95.0.4638.69 (Official Build) (64-bit)

 

There is another unscheduled update to the Chrome Browser due to several more serious active exploits.

[Lee B]

Another unscheduled update.  Several different tech articles that I have read, say that there has been an unprecedented increase in attacks

on all of the major browsers.  So which ever browser that you use, check regularly to make sure it's up to date.

 

Chrome is up to date

Version 96.0.4664.45 (Official Build) (64-bit

[Lee B]

Another unscheduled Chrome update needed to address 20 active security hacks:

"Chrome is up to date

Version 96.0.4664.93 (Official Build) (64-bit)"

[Lee B]

Another unscheduled Chrome update needed to address an extremely serious security risk.

In the last month Google has announced almost 40 different active security exploits

"Chrome is up to date

Version 96.0.4664.110 (Official Build) (64-bit)"

[mcbreck]

How many emergency updates do you have to go through before you think maybe the product itself is the problem?

[Margaret CPA in OH]

I'm just glad that I don't use Chrome.  I've been using Firefox for years and am pretty comfortable with it.  There are occasional updates but nothing like I've seen with Chrome as reported by cbslee.

[jklcpa]

I have 3 sites that don't work with Firefox and have been using Chrome for EFTPS, an online pharmacy for husband and mom, and for my own Vanguard accounts.  What is everyone using to access EFTPS?  MS Edge?

[Margaret CPA in OH]

I did have to use Chrome once to access E-services when IE no longer was accepted.  But I forgot last week and used FF.  It worked perfectly!  I haven't had to use EFTPS for some time, thankfully.  All this stuff is such a pain.  Every time something like this comes up, I inch ever closer to Buh Bye.  License expires end of 2022, two clients have bid adieu (although I had 6 new ones for 2021!), so all is tempting.  I have said for some time that I work to go on exotic dive trips - HAH!  Not a good excuse these days.

[Lee B]

For years I used Firefox, now I find it more convenient to use Chrome , even though I know they are tracking everything.

Unless you are going to use a combination something like Brave and Duck Duck Go, but then that won't work for everything.

 

[Margaret CPA in OH]

I do use Duck Duck Go.  It just seems that FF has fewer issues than the more widely used browsers.  I'm good with the less popular things in my life - they tend to draw less attention.  I will take a look at Brave, though.  Just never heard of it before.