Google Fixes Issue That Broke Millions of Web-Based Games in Chrome
By Catalin Cimpanu | May 16, 2018
Google released yesterday a Chrome update that temporarily fixed a bug that broke millions of web-based games, some of which couldn’t play audio at all, despite whatever tricks and configs users tried.
The bug was introduced in mid-April when Google launched Chrome 66. One of this release’s features was its ability to block web pages with auto-playing audio.
While the feature was obviously aimed at web pages with ads and auto-playing videos, it had an unforeseen side-effect of also muting HTML5 and JavaScript-based games.
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With today’s release of Chrome for Desktop v66.0.3359.181, Google has now fixed this issue, but only temporarily.
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Stable Channel Update for Desktop
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
The stable channel has been updated to 66.0.3359.181 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks.
