Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed security features

Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by baybal2 on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:13AM (#29262471)

Chrome used to have an option of a blank page, but it was removed "for user convenience"

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Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by matttb on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:34AM (#29262622)

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Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by xtanx on Thursday November 18, 2021 @02:57AM (#29263162)

Until it gets removed "for user convenience"

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Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by danielbln on Thursday November 18, 2021 @04:20AM (#29263620)

Chrome disabled the extension for me because of "chrome store policy". I was graciously allowed to enable the extension again...

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Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by bagacrap on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:10AM (#29266267)

citation needed... afaik it's always been available via an extension and never via a setting

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Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by hansel_der on Thursday November 18, 2021 @04:56AM (#29263828)

TIL

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Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by jan_Inkepa on Thursday November 18, 2021 @07:29AM (#29264665)

Or how will my innocent friends learn of my sordid browsing history? -_-

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Re:Dangerous bug in Chrome’s ‘New Tab’ page bypassed securit... by eyelidlessness on Thursday November 18, 2021 @02:30AM (#29262993)

This seems oddly specific. Show me where the insightful but repetitive, moderately funny British man hurt you.

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