Google suspends Chrome upgrades as COVID-19 impacts software schedules
Summary
" The "adjusted work schedule" clearly referred to the disruption caused by the pandemic, including a six-county "shelter-in-place" order for Californias Bay Area. Googles headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., 39 miles southwest of San Francisco, is located in Santa Clara County, one of the six under lockdown. According to a now-outdated Chrome release schedule, Google was supposed to upgrade the browser to version 81 on Tuesday, March 17. Also on Wednesday, Google updated Chrome 80 — the version that debuted Feb. 4 — to build 80.0.3987.149, which contained fixes for 13 security vulnerabilities. Microsoft, which in January released a revamped Edge built atop Chromium, may have to follow Googles lead and limit its browser to security updates, too.