remove chromium 18
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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chromium-browser (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Chromium 18 is out of support has has numerous security vulnerabilities. A historical listing can be found by browsing here:
http://
or see here: http://
For this reason, users should not be allowed to install chromium 18. Please make this happen by either updating the chromium-browser package, or removing it from the archive (or some other way that I don't know about).
Additionally, there is a collection of ppas (https:/
There are two ways that I know of that users can acquire an updated and secure version of chromium:
The ppa listed here: https:/
or by using Google's google-chrome package.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: chromium-browser (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 4 15:19:45 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-22 (135 days ago)
description: | updated |
visibility: | private → public |
description: | updated |
I've subscribed the members of the chromium-daily ppa to this bug.