Re:Google Chrome experiment crashes browser tabs, impacts co...
by senderista on Friday November 15, 2019 @04:29AM
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This is not about auto-updates. Organizations which had disabled auto-updates were still affected. In this case Google changed Chrome behavior without changing the release version. That’s absolutely unacceptable.
Another example is a recent issue where a Chrome update broke WebView based Android apps and stopped them from being able to make certain types of network requests. It was fixed in 2 weeks, but that 2 week period was full of unhappy customers and lost revenue.
I'm hoping the upcoming Chromium based Edge from Microsoft will allow IT Admins to control when a browser update is rolled out and give them more control over the update process.
Chrome auto-updates can be disabled for networks behind a firewall by blocking the update server address, but that's a very crude way, and doesn't allow for updating a test machine to see how the new version works, or updating to the latest minus 1 version.