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This is one of the reasons corporates still use IE. Its easy to control and QA for stuff like this. Heads roll when 1500 people can't work.

jaredsohn 14y ago
This is not a legitimate excuse for using IE instead of Chrome. You can disable automatic updates via setting just a single registry key on Windows (and do similarly simple operations on Linux and Mac.) http://www.chromefans.org/chrome-tutorial/how-to-disable-google-chrome-automatic-updates.htm http://www.chromefans.org/chrome-tutorial/how-to-disable-goo...
- azakai 14y ago
  No, please do not disable automatic updates. Without automatic updates, you are not receiving security updates so you are running a vulnerable browser.
  - jaredsohn 14y ago
    It is a tradeoff. If somebody disabled automatic updates in Chrome, then they wouldn't have their secure websockets randomly broken on them some day. This could be more important for some users. Enterprises that disable automatic updates should be regularly monitoring when updates occur so they understand the tradeoffs between the risk of using code that hasn't been tested extensively (so things might break) and the value provided in the updates.
    - azakai 14y ago
      This bug will likely not be fixed, since it is in a stable release and is not a security threat. So not updating in order to avoid this bug means not updating for the entire 6-week period. That's a huge amount of time to not be receiving security updates. It's hard for me to see the tradeoff making sense. I guess delaying the update until the severity of the bug is clear might make sense, for a short amount of time. But if you don't have a good workaround for the problem, you again have the choice between the bug or between an unpatched browser for a whole 6 scary weeks.
- gouranga 14y ago
  It is when you consider WSUS which allows staged deployments of patches. Oh and group policy which allows browsers to be controlled heavily. I rather like Chrome but as with other browsers, in controlled corporate environments there is no competition with IE. Any technical superiority is 100% irrelevant.
  - jaredsohn 14y ago
    I'm not sure if they are as good as they are for IE, but there are more tools available for deploying Chrome in the enterprise (http://serverfault.com/questions/364150/running-google-chrome-updates-from-a-centralized-location http://serverfault.com/questions/364150/running-google-chrom...).
    - gouranga 14y ago
      Interesting - genuinely didn't know about that. Thanks for the pointer! :)

jaredsohn 14y ago

This is not a legitimate excuse for using IE instead of Chrome. You can disable automatic updates via setting just a single registry key on Windows (and do similarly simple operations on Linux and Mac.) http://www.chromefans.org/chrome-tutorial/how-to-disable-google-chrome-automatic-updates.htm http://www.chromefans.org/chrome-tutorial/how-to-disable-goo...

azakai 14y ago
No, please do not disable automatic updates. Without automatic updates, you are not receiving security updates so you are running a vulnerable browser.
- jaredsohn 14y ago
  It is a tradeoff. If somebody disabled automatic updates in Chrome, then they wouldn't have their secure websockets randomly broken on them some day. This could be more important for some users. Enterprises that disable automatic updates should be regularly monitoring when updates occur so they understand the tradeoffs between the risk of using code that hasn't been tested extensively (so things might break) and the value provided in the updates.
  - azakai 14y ago
    This bug will likely not be fixed, since it is in a stable release and is not a security threat. So not updating in order to avoid this bug means not updating for the entire 6-week period. That's a huge amount of time to not be receiving security updates. It's hard for me to see the tradeoff making sense. I guess delaying the update until the severity of the bug is clear might make sense, for a short amount of time. But if you don't have a good workaround for the problem, you again have the choice between the bug or between an unpatched browser for a whole 6 scary weeks.
gouranga 14y ago
It is when you consider WSUS which allows staged deployments of patches. Oh and group policy which allows browsers to be controlled heavily. I rather like Chrome but as with other browsers, in controlled corporate environments there is no competition with IE. Any technical superiority is 100% irrelevant.
- jaredsohn 14y ago
  I'm not sure if they are as good as they are for IE, but there are more tools available for deploying Chrome in the enterprise (http://serverfault.com/questions/364150/running-google-chrome-updates-from-a-centralized-location http://serverfault.com/questions/364150/running-google-chrom...).
  - gouranga 14y ago
    Interesting - genuinely didn't know about that. Thanks for the pointer! :)