Chrome users should update their browser

105.0.5195.79 is the latest for Android.

Chromium
Version 105.0.5195.52 (Official Build) snap (64-bit)

seems to be it for Ubuntu

Thanks for the heads up. It updated.

Hey, thanks for the heads up. All taken care of.

Phil

Just updated.

I followed the directions you provided, and was advised that I already had the latest version. A version number was provided which matched the one you prescribed.

I guess the automatic rollout works pretty quickly at least in some cases.

Fortunately, Chrome isn't on any of my systems. More to the point, nothing made by Alphabet or its child Google is installed on my systems.

Every browser I have, has been configured so it doesn't use Google, Bing, Ebay or Amazon search engines.

If and when I actually am forced into using onr of those search engines, I'm forced to go to enter ( Google.com, Ebay or Amazon.com ) into the url.

Google's corporate moto / directive is or used to be, "Don't be evil". Yet in my opinion, that's exactly what it's become. I'll not express my thoughts about the others as in my mind the answer, as one of my college professors would say when querried for an explanation about an algorithm was, "Answer should be intuitively obvious, proof left for student!"

Auto update just took me to version 105.0.5195.102. (09/07/2022)

Thanks for the info!

Be safe!

My win 10 Chrome is at Version 105.0.5195.102 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Chrome should do the updates automatically right?

In Windows 10, open Chrome and type "chrome://policy" (without the quotes) into the address bar, the hit the enter key. Scroll down to the section named "Google Update Policies" and see if anything is set. Typically, it will state "No policies set" in which case you need to manually trigger the update process.

I've had Chrome for years and it's always updated itself without intervention from me. And if memory serves, I never set any parameter to specify auto-update.

Phil

Auto update is always on by default. You will have to go out of your way to turn off auto update. All modern browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) auto update is ON by default. However, I find auto update can sometimes be a few days late. I check for updates manually IF I happen to know bad guys are exploiting security flaws.

Checked and mine was on the latest version. Thanks for the heads up.

Speaking of browsers, anyone use vivaldi? It's chromium based and has a ton of options.

I did discover one drawback this evening when trying to copy the profile to another computer. Apparently you can't. At least not entirely.

Firefox is my primary browser. With that, it's very simple to replicate the configuration on another pc. Just copy the profile folder after installing the browser. Not so with vivaldi. Items such as passwords and extensions don't copy over.

Chrome is on the pc too, but is used rarely. Mainly for pages that don't load in FF because of strict security.

Chrome is not my default browser. I use mostly Mozilla Firefox.

This is helpful information.

Many years ago part of my travel checklist was to copy Firefox configuration files from my daily driver PC to my travel laptop. It was always a bit iffy and messy for me, and I'm grateful to have learned to use the mechanism Firefox provides--Sync. That keeps the two PCs and the laptop that I use always the same.

^^Sync, does that use some sort of cloud as a medium?

Here are a couple of pages Mozilla, the outfit behind Firefox, posted on Sync, with emphasis on privacy and data security issues.

https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2020/09/15/the-future-of-s...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/

The nub is that they keep an encrypted copy of your synced stuff on their server, but they can't read it.

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-set-sync-my-co...

thanks this is the first I've heard about it.

I don't mind so much having bookmarks/links/settings stored in the cloud. But I draw the line at passwords. That just doesn't site right with me. Just because the terms say it's all Hashed, encrypted, etc, doesn't mean that someone higher up doesn't hold the keys to the castle.

This thread was started to suggest updating to Chrome 105.0.5195.102.

Chrome Version 105.0.5195.127 came out I believe today 09/13 Tuesday.

There seems to be other update(s) between .102 and .127

I'm running version 105.0.5195.126 before getting updated to 105.0.5195.127

This thread is useful for those that use Chrome..

My recommendation is to completely remove Googlr Chrome from every device and use browsers such as:

▪︎ DuckDuckgo
• FireFox
• Brave

And be sure to disable the settings for search engines of

• Google
• Bing
• Yahoo
• Amazon
• Ebay

But that's just my personal slant on this..

Up to the .127 level.

Phil

I tried to make a go of Brave after one of my babies strongly advocated for it. My problem is that under Ubuntu Brave's checkpointing either doesn't work or doesn't exist at all. I don't wish to work that way.

Why

@BarneyBadass

No like vivaldi?

On any browser I install, ublockorigin is the first plugin to get installed. That blocks 99.9% of the ads, hopefully some of the tracking garbage too.

I use uBlock Origin as well, works great, especially in concert with Malwarebytes.