Software

v81.0.4044.122 “This update includes 8 security fixes”
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Chrome for Android updated too. The Chrome Android team can’t be bothered with release notes or info so we get, “You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log.“.
Check it out, it’s a real page turner that is full of such enlightening info as,
“Flush the output file after writing if it was mapped into memory.
This avoids an interesting bug in Windows as per the code comment.”
or
“Move unmapping of large pages out of the spin-lock in PartitionAlloc
Instead of unmapping directly, Free() returns DeferredUnmap that needs
to be run after releasing the lock.”
Keep working that nerd stereotype boys, I’m sure those Silicon Valley chicks dig it.

Google Chrome Updated
“The stable channel has been updated to 79.0.3945.117 for Windows, Mac, and Linux…This update includes 3 security fixes.”
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Chrome for Android updated too.
“This release includes stability and performance improvements.”
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Firefox 72.0.1
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This is an update for version 72.0 that was released yesterday.

Firefox 66.0.4
Repaired certificate chain to re-enable web extensions that had been disabled
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This morning many of us saw an extensions disabled warning in Firefox. Seems to be a temporary situation.
Solution: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/certificate-issue-causing-add-ons-to-be-disabled-or-fail-to-install/39047/14

Google Chrome 71.0.3578.80 for Windows (43 security fixes)
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Google Chrome 71.0.3578.83 for Android
Also comes with an ad blocker. Located at chrome://settings/content/ads
Mine was not enabled by default.

The settings for stopping video autoplay in Firefox changed recently. Since I keep my sound off until needed I didn’t notice until this morning. A search turned up the following thread at Mozilla’s forums that corrected the issue for me (at least temporarily):
Block video autoplay not working

“hi, in firefox 63 the autoplay preferences are reorganized in preparation for this feature shipping out of the box in one of the upcoming versions. in about:config you can set media.autoplay.default to 1 in order to block automatic playback on all pages or set it to 2 to decide on a per domain basis.”