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

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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @02:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 14 2019, @02:20PM (#894065)

    This is what you get when one commercial company, one where you, the browser user are actually the product, and the real customers are the advertisers, gets big enough. They start feeling like they can simply decide to "set the standard" to whatever it is that best serves their true customers (the advertisers).

    The only solution: Stop using Chrome.

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