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Google Chrome 77 Breaks Login Pages on Netgear Devices

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday September 14 2019, @05:54AM   
from the what-doesn't-kill-you... dept.

martyb writes:

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

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• Re:Well, it used to work... Re:Well, it used to work... (Score: 5, Informative) by MostCynical on Saturday September 14 2019, @11:46AM (2 children)

  by MostCynical (2589) on Saturday September 14 2019, @11:46AM (#894037) Journal

  No more google?
  Try LineageOS [lineageos.org]
  (you can even put some, or all of google's stuff back, if you want)

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  "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

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• Re:Well, it used to work... Re:Well, it used to work... (Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday September 15 2019, @04:34AM (1 child)

  by Reziac (2489) on Sunday September 15 2019, @04:34AM (#894248) Homepage

  Does anyone offer a naked phone where we can just install what we want without dinking around with the existing locks and OS?

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  And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.

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  • Re:Well, it used to work... (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @05:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 15 2019, @05:32PM (#894388)

    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*

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