Previous version: 83.0.4103.116-3.1
Current version: (not in testing)
Hint: https://release.debian.org/britney/hints/elbrus
# 20201212
Bug #973848: chromium: Unsupported version, many security bugs unfixed
Bug #960454: chromium: Make Chromium ask before downloading and enabling DRM
Bug #972134: chromium: please, consider moving the package to team-maintainance to properly maintain it
Bug #977103: chromium: FTBFS on armhf: error: write to reserved register ‘R7’
Bug #976292: design-desktop-web: drop chromium as Depends
Migration status for chromium (- to 83.0.4103.116-3.1): BLOCKED: Rejected/violates migration policy/introduces a regression
Its good that they pushed the sid version to buster, but this doesnt
mean this issue wont happen in the future and this isnt a permanent
guaranteed solution that we can rely on. (The package though still being
removed in the next debian version bullseye)
The question remain how long will debian take to upgrade chromium 87 to
8x , or will it ever move or upgrade from this version to another one.
There is no such thing as an extrepo repository. extrepo is a method of enabling an already available repository (such as deb.torproject.org, deb.whonix.org, …) in an easier way. Instead of following third party instructions on how to enable the third party repository (add apt signing key + add apt sources.list.d snippet) it simplifies that process. No third party repository with alternative Chromium versions to being with → extrepo repository cannot help either. Similar explanation:
Iridium uses an ancient version of Chromium and is therefore publicly vulnerable to known vulnerabilities, all whilst the developers blatantly lie to its users on Github about this. It also severely weakens the browsers exploit mitigations by e.g. switching from Clang to GCC (so no CFI, etc.) for seemingly no reason; they just apply dangerous patches for the sake of it.
Counter measures In response to a report that a tracker was using CNAMEs to circumvent privacyblocklists4, uBlock Origin released an update for its Firefox version that thwarts CNAME cloaking [23]. The extension blocks requests to CNAME trackers by resolving the domain names using the browser.dns.resolve API method to obtain the last CNAME record (if there is any) before each request is sent. Subsequently, the extension checks whether the domain name matches any of the rules in its block lists, and blocks requests with matching domains while adding the outcome to a local cache. Although uBlock Origin also has a version for Chromium-based browsers, the same defense cannot be applied because Chromium-based browser extensions do not have access to an API to performDNS queries. As such, at the time of this writing, it is technically impossible for these extensions to block requests to trackers that leverage CNAME records to avoid detection
Indeed. This is good news. The transition isn’t nice for users but from Freedom Software viewpoint, it is good that Open Source code interacting with proprietary API has been removed.