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Google Chrome 77 Breaks Login Pages on Netgear Devices:
Google Chrome 77, released yesterday, has broken the login pages on modern Netegar[sic] devices, according to an avalanche of complaints on the company's official forum.
Devices like Nighthawk routers [1, 2, 3], Orbi WiFi meshes/routers, N600 modems, and ReadyNAS network-attached storage (NAS) systems [1, 2] appear to have been impacted.
According to reports, users trying to access their devices' admin page are either being redirected to the password page instead, or seeing an access denied error message.
While most people don't need to access their routers or modems' administration pages on a daily basis, the issue has had a more significant impact on owners of Netgear NAS equipment.
Netgear suggests using Firefox or Edge as a workaround.
Personally, I've never been a fan of automatic updating. Feel free to remind me to check, but it should be my decision to actually perform the check and/or update
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @06:20AM (5 children)
My phone autouploaded an update to Google Play Services. Now it's throwing error notifications about the dialer and SMS messaging having problems.
It seems par for the course. If I had the skills to patch Google out of my life, this wouldn't happen, but then, my own Congress would consider me to be a criminal for violating copyrighted code.
It still seems to work though, it's just that notification that things are failing is a bit unsettling.
This is Congressional Grade performance, fomented by Congressional Vote, and in my mind, falls short of being a viable public product.
All Congress would have to do is insert a rider exempting bug fixes from prosecution under Copyright Law.
(Score: 5, Informative) by MostCynical on Saturday September 14 2019, @11:46AM (2 children)
No more google?
Try LineageOS [lineageos.org]
(you can even put some, or all of google's stuff back, if you want)
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday September 15 2019, @04:34AM (1 child)
Does anyone offer a naked phone where we can just install what we want without dinking around with the existing locks and OS?
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @05:32PM
2 word: firmware drivers. firm-ly in the hands of hardware manufacturers (excluding pretty much only the core CPU).
let's see:
GPS sensor.
camera(s)
microphone + speaker (maybe)
touchscreen
audiochiplet
vibrator
gazillion axis sensor
etc.
they all need some driver-software, and maybe 'cause some genius could reverse the actual transistor layout if the driver software-code is opensource, "someone" would then manufactur that transistor layout cheaper and the original would die a horrible death of bankruptcy *sniff*
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @01:07PM
Probably unrelated, but some years back we had a Netgear home router. In 2017 we decided to update it (I think they offered a security update?) All the product numbers (etc) lined up, so we downloaded the latest and greatest from the Netgear website, installed it, and promptly had a broken router.
Tried all the online FAQs and other possible fixes, no way to get back to the previous version. Finally called Netgear and explained that their own update broke it. They were happy to send us a fix...after we bought a service contract that cost approximately as much as the router.
It seems that we weren't the only ones disgusted with this behavior--
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/home_electronics/netgear.html [consumeraffairs.com]
Add me to the list that will never buy Netgear again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @02:59PM
In later versions of Android it is no longer possible to natively disable or uninstall Google Pray.
For some reason.