Without warning, Google appears to have broken Chrome for still
supported Linux systems
I'm receiving reports -- and have confirmed locally -- that Google appears
to have broken support for the Chrome browser for Ubuntu Linux 18.04 systems,
without any warning that I'm aware of.
While 18.04 is an older system, many are running with extended support
from Canonical that runs through 2028. Many of these systems are in
crucial applications where upgrading to later Ubuntu versions is not
currently practical.
The problem appears to be that while Chrome Stable 127 is fine on these
systems, Chrome Stable 128 now being rolled will not upgrade via apt,
due apparently to the system libgcc-s1 library not being >= 4.2.
While there may be manual workarounds for this situation, they cannot
be considered generally applicable since tampering with system libraries
can easily render a system unbootable.
If Google intended to obsolete Chrome on these systems, there should
have been plenty of warning -- but apparently there was none. Not being
able to update Chrome invokes a variety of serious security concerns.
The current situation is unacceptable. -L
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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