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According to the SecBrowsing blog, their update aspirations have been a smashing success.
The traditional Flash updater is easy enough to avoid -- I often work on end users systems and see the beleaguered Flash updater crying out for attention from the system tray. Sadly, its cries often go ignored. Chrome's internal updater, however, can't be ignored. When there's a update to the browser or an internal plug-in, by Odin's beard, you're going to get it!
Within just two days of the most recent Flash update, fewer than 30% of SecBrowsing visitors were running an out-of-date version. That's compared to 14 days with the previous release -- a substantial improvement.
No comparisons to other browsers are given, but I've got to think that Chrome users are well ahead of the curve here.
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Subscribe to commentsSpankyAug 23rd 2010 11:07AM
Certainly don't want to hijack the thread or rain on the Chrome lovefest but while the Flash stuff is keeping up to date, why does LastPass tell me that the current version of Chrome is a non-starter? There's some sort of bug (I'll leave it to those that have the time to read the warning) that informs me that LastPass will destroy the world if I install it in the latest version of Chrome.
After doing some digging (and by "some" I'm being generous) it appears that this is a bug that has been in existence in Chrome for quite some time.
Here's the issue... If you're going to update your browser every 7 hours, that's cool. I like having to find things after learning where they were in the previous 50 versions. But, you may want to also consider that some of us are desperately interested in trying out some 12 character long passwords (the new benchmark for safety) and can't fathom doing so without LastPass's assistance. So, pretty please, stop messing with the apps and the UI and fix whatever bug LastPass needs so we can have a secure 12 character password surfing experience.
And don't forget, anything you can do, Firefox can do with a bunch of greasemonkey scripts. So, don't get cocky!
KualaBeeAug 23rd 2010 6:28PM
Lastpass works fine for Stable chrome ( I use it extensively). It does not work for Beta/Developer version. If fact, if you use beta/developer version of chrome with lastpass, lastpass will even warn you that it won't work with these versions.
Also Google is not responsible for any complaints of frequent updates or anything for that matter for their beta/developer versions. They clearly state that before you download. If you do not like the frequent updates and numerous bugs, then use the stable chrome channel which is officially supported
Matt S.Aug 23rd 2010 10:25PM
The LastPass bug that keeps it from logging in or reports a bad password has already been fixed. It just hasn't worked its way to a stable version yet. Its definitely in the nightly's and its definitely in the newest Canary build.
You just have to wait for it to filter down into a beta build if its not there already and you use them or wait for a stable release.
If you look at the version number the bug showed up at 495 and was fixed by 498. But I dont know how the stable release version numbers work.
Thats all I know..
Angus HedgerAug 24th 2010 7:18AM
Its basically a bug in the v8 javascript engine, where it doesn’t do maths correctly, so lastpass etc cant check the password hashes.
r3loadedAug 23rd 2010 11:13AM
I love Chrome's auto-updater and integrated Flash plugin - it means that I don't have to run around and ensure my family's other computers are up-to-date when a new update comes out! :)
BrianAug 23rd 2010 11:22AM
Great but....
where does it end, flash now but what about the other plugins. And then the file is a 200mb download bloatware.
DaveAug 23rd 2010 11:51AM
Slippery Slope much? It would have to be a lot of bloatware to get to 200 MB.
kassie2k4Aug 24th 2010 3:16AM
I don't think the built in flash plugin was a good idea, ever since it was added, my Flash crashes in chrome 3x more often, it got so bad I had to disable the built in plugin so it uses the normal flash plugin.
NickAug 23rd 2010 1:21PM
Still don't like the fact that the integrated PDF plugin still doesn't let you zoom.
JeffAug 23rd 2010 8:39PM
@Nick, you should be able to zoom PDFs by hitting Ctrl + and Ctrl - (just like on webpages), or by moving your mouse to the lower-right corner and clicking on the zoom buttons which appear.