Yesterday, when the editor of Leifeng.com saw a circle of friends while surfing the Internet, he couldn't help laughing......
What's going on?
It turns out that Chrome browser has recently encountered a large-scale global shutdown.
This time, the Chrome that we are commonly involved in on the PC side is not the version used in the Windows Server "Terminal Services" configuration. On that day, thousands of errors were reported to the Internet. The main phenomenon was that the Chrome tab page suddenly blanked and it was impossible to access the Internet normally.
According to foreign technology media Cne, this strange thing that happened on Google Chrome browser was first discovered on November 14. At that time, some corporate users were handling daily work through Chrome browser, but when they returned to Chrome from their desktop, they found that the page that had been opened was blank, resulting in the work being performed and the data being lost. These users initially thought that the computer was harassed by malware, but after checking the computer's security, they confirmed that the computer had no security problems. After the
event, Google Chrome Task Team confirmed the above event through its official podcast, claiming that it was just a new feature they tested on Chrome.
This new feature is called web-contents-occulusion. Its original design intention is that when the user places other applications on the Chrome front-end, Chrome will automatically stop loading the page in order to save resources for the user to handle other applications. Google Chrome engineer David Bienvenu said: The test has been tested for up to 6 months in all Chrome test versions, and has been fully released to all browsers with Chrome 77 or above, without any problems.
Under strong doubts and condemnation from users, the Google Chrome team has released a fix to these hacked Chrome versions, temporarily banning this "concert" feature.
Google secretly conducted a functional test without warning prompts on a browser with so many people, which is chilling.
is quietly updated with Google Chrome OS system
In addition, Google Chrome OS, another operating system, has also recently received new updates. Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system based on Linux.
According to foreign media reports, Google has added new features to Chrome OS. In the new version of Chrome OS, Google displays the Chromebook end of life date, which represents the period when your Chromebook can get system or security updates. Basically every Chromebook will receive years of support, and Google will provide Chrome OS system updates and security patch updates during this period.
In the past, Chromebook users needed to know their laptop model and hardware version, and then query through Google support page to know the actual end of life date. Now Chrome OS system will show when the device will stop getting system and security updates, and users no longer have to spend time confirming the end of life period of their Chromebook.
According to Baidu Encyclopedia, Chromebook is an online notebook launched by Google. This is a brand new laptop, known as "fully online" and can provide complete network application services.
is mainly a laptop developed using the Chrome OS system of Google. Even Samsung and Acer have made it clear that they will launch laptops for this system, and Chrome notebooks will be collectively called Chromebooks. Chrome browser is likely to become the only client for laptops and smartphones in the future, and everything is going online. provides greater convenience for laptops, especially the limitations of mobile phone hardware, which makes many things not available at will.
On the surface, Chrome seems to have just made some system updates and iterations, but it is more like preparing for it to retain users and expand its user territory.
How long can we trust Google Chrome?
Google Chrome was once recognized as the best browser in the world. However, in recent years, Google Chrome seems to be becoming more and more arrogant, and privacy leakage, vulnerability threats, and automatic updates have become the keywords of chorme.
In 2012, the Federal Trade Commission accused Google of defrauding millions of Apple Safari browser users, making them think that as long as they do not modify the browser's privacy settings, their Internet activities will not be tracked by Google. In fact, they use special codes to bypass the Safari browser's privacy settings, thereby constantly tracking users' Internet habits. Afterward, Google paid a record $22.5 million civil fine.
In 2013, Google encountered a privacy investigation in six European countries due to cloud service terms. Spain issued the first ticket, claiming that Google unilaterally integrated personal information without informing users, violating Spain's data protection law. Spain fined Google 900,000 euros, about 1.23 million US dollars.
In 2018, after Google released the 10th anniversary edition, Google Chrome became a browser that was collectively dissed by foreign netizens. The main crimes are two:
, one is that the cookies used to browse Google pages cannot be deleted, and Google secretly remembers the things you searched quietly;
, the account that automatically logs in to Chrome using Google services. When you borrow a colleague's computer to log in to the Gmail email, your Google account will be logged in to the Chrome of this computer. What kind of film reading artifacts and hair transplant product orders are stored in your favorites - your colleagues will know.
In November 2019, Google Chorme browser was found to have two high-risk vulnerabilities. The vulnerability allows hackers to elevate privileges, thereby conducting high-level malicious attacks on user computers. Both of these vulnerabilities are highly severable, both allowing hackers to execute arbitrary code in the Chorme browser, obtain sensitive information, and even bypass the host's unauthorized security mechanism to fully manipulate the computer. Although
privacy leakage, vulnerability threats, and automatic system updates this time are not new among many browsers, every time it occurs, the user's patience will be consumed. If this continues, how much trust will the user have left in Google Chrome?
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