Steam Desktop Update

Posted by Inocez on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:01AM
from the store.steampowered.com dept.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/?emclan=103582791457287600&emgid=3687931965598906184

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Re:Steam Desktop Update by concinds on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:29AM (#36337791)

Those "who love to have a movie on in the background while they game" can now pin the Overlay's browser in a translucent frame that floats on top of the game.

But you'd have to be crazy to use that browser, if it's still insecure, out of date, and with sandboxing disabled: https://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/08/steam-uses-insecure-out-of... Especially with the NSA saying Steam is a popular attack vector.

Did they ever fix that? How responsive are they in keeping CEF up to date?

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Re:Steam Desktop Update by richardjam73 on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:41AM (#36337853)

The current browser is Chrome 85.0.4183.121 Which appears to be from Sept 2020

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Re:Steam Desktop Update by concinds on Thursday June 15, 2023 @04:49AM (#36337909)

Sorry, edited my comment above before seeing your reply. Can confirm, I tested with the new version of Steam (the one being announced here).

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Re:Steam Desktop Update by jrepinc on Thursday June 15, 2023 @09:29AM (#36340177)

Yay, they finally added hardware acceleration support for GNU/Linux. Hopefully we see much more love for GNU/Linux in the future.

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