Chromium issues and vulnerability

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https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/google-publishes-exploit-code-threatening-millions-of-chromium-users/

This is one that you can't really drill down and see if you're vulnerable or not. And here's the rub, just about every browser out there is affected.

Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other Chromium-based browsers.

Users of Chromium browsers should be suspicious of download dropdowns that appear for no reason. Drilling into the cause and discovering they’re the result of the vulnerability being exploited remains more complicated. Other browsers Rebans confirmed as vulnerable include Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, and Arc. Both Firefox and Safari are unaffected because they don’t support the browser-fetching feature.

Now... Is this something that can compromise your machine (or phone) for your information? Currently, it doesn't look like it. However, there's some pretty smart cookies out there and it's conceivable that someone just could mange to wrangle this exploit into something that could slurp up everything you're typing when accessing your various online accounts.

And as noted, Firefox and Safari are not affected by this.