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dataflowyesterday at 5:25 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Why does Chromium version lag matter?

> users are exposed to known, already-patched security vulnerabilities

Then why only focus on major versions? Don't minor versions/revisions have security fixes?


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xeeeeeeeeeeenuyesterday at 6:18 PM

Yes and also stable isn't the only maintained branch of Chromium, there's also extended stable (currently 146.x). LTS exists too (144.x), but I believe it's meant only for ChromeOS.

superjanyesterday at 6:37 PM

In a perfect world, there would be a stable version of chrome, that would get fixes, but would crucially not get the new features that introduce new vulnerabilities. Not a fun job, I know, but with today’s coding agents it wouldn’t even be an unreasonable ask.