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Livin’ on the Edge: Dude Where’s My Fix?!? (Redux)

In my last post, I showed you how to use OmahaProxy’s Find Releases tool to discover which versions of Chrome contain a given bugfix. I noted that if you’re using Microsoft’s new Chromium-based Edge, you can look at the edge://version page or this extension to see the upstream Chrome version upon which Edge is based: OctContinue reading “Livin’ on the Edge: Dude Where’s My Fix?!? (Redux)”

Livin’ on the Edge: Dude Where’s My Fix?!?

Yesterday, we covered the mechanisms that modern browsers can use to rapidly update their release channels. Today, let’s look at how to figure out when an eagerly awaited fix will become available in the Canary channels. By way of example, consider crbug.com/977805, a nasty beast that caused some extensions to randomly be disabled and marked corrupt: ByContinue reading “Livin’ on the Edge: Dude Where’s My Fix?!?”

Great Product Support

And now for something completely different… Shortly after we moved into our house in late 2012, the control panel on our GE Oven (model #JTP30B0M1BB) started to fall apart. The faceplate of the control panel was made of a plastic that wasn’t sufficiently heat-resistant. The labeled plastic began to bubble, crack, and peel. By 2018,Continue reading “Great Product Support”

Updating Browsers Quickly: Flags, Respins, and Components

By this point, most browser enthusiasts know that Chrome has a rapid release cycle, releasing a new stable version of the browser approximately every six 4 weeks (2022 Update: now every four weeks). The Edge team adopted that rapid release cadence for our new browser, and we’re already releasing new Edge Dev Channel builds everyContinue reading “Updating Browsers Quickly: Flags, Respins, and Components”