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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: 4, Insightful) by krishnoid on Saturday September 14 2019, @07:16AM (1 child)
Poorly written, noncompliant [themarysue.com] router administration pages. If this forces them all to get their HTML into compliance and release an update, good for everyone. You could always download a portable version of Chrome and keep that around for a while if you just *have* to use Chrome to administer your devices.
All the updates prior to that point on a backdated Chrome would likely still make it more reliable across the board than the router that's having problems anyway.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @07:46AM
Nope, it is something to do with chrome. Apparently, if you restart Windows after the update, the page will magically start working again in chrome.