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Recent third party patches

Posted on April 20, 2015 at 21:35 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

This was just posted as a comment by WL (no, the other WL):

Recent third party patches:

1) Google Chrome has a major update to 42.0.2311.90 on April 14, with many changes.
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html

After months of weaning users away from NPAPI support for security, this version (42) finally disables NPAPI support by default. So if some of your plugins stop working (e.g. Java, Shockwave Player, others), you may want to learn how to temporarily re-enable them via this flag:
chrome://flags/#enable-npapi

Note, the drop dead date is September 2015 (version 45), when NPAPI support will be removed – and this override will no longer work.

http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/14/google_java_chrome_42/

http://java.com/en/download/faq/chrome.xml

2) The latest Flash Player is 17.0.0.169 for most browsers.
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

P.S. If you use Chrome, you re-enabled NPAPI support, AND you manually updated Flash (e.g. for other browsers like Firefox), remember to specifically disable the NPAPI Flash Player plugin in Chrome, so only one Flash plugin is running, to avoid instability.
chrome://plugins

P.P.S. I notice that the buggy behavior in displaying the plugins page has cropped back up & worsened in this version. So, if your page/list of plugins seems incomplete/cut off, toggle the “+Details” link at the top right, until you get the full list (i.e. so you see the vertical scroll bar). However, if you scroll down and AGAIN lose control of the page (e.g. won’t scroll, so you can’t go further down nor go back up to the “+Details” link), then refresh the page to “fix”. Sigh ….

3) Java JRE goes to 8u45 (1.8.0_45-b14) on April 13
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u45-relnotes-2494160.html

4) Firefox has a major update to 37.x (currently 37.0.1 on April 3)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/37.0.1/releasenotes/

5) If anyone knows of any other major third party updates, please add to this list ….

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