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arthurfm on Aug 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Our Copyfish extension was stolen and adware-infes...

The IDN vulnerability was fixed by Google in Chrome 58.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2017/04/chr... https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=683314

Why have you got such an old version of Chrome?

fnj on Aug 2, 2017 [–]

Thank you. That gives me a strong reason to update.

To answer your question, (1) it's pretty arduous to install Chrome from the AUR, and (2) I am wary of Google removing useful functionality from Chrome.

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