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Google to Fix Chrome 72 Bug That Broke Down Ad Blockers

Google has recently confirmed that it would actually roll out a fix for the Chrome 72 bug that breaks down some extensions.

Google has recently confirmed that it would actually roll out a fix for the Chrome 72 bug that breaks down some extensions.

As I explained earlier this week, Google included a new experiment called “Enable network service” in Chrome 72 and activated it for a number of installations, only for these users to find out that some extensions may be broken down.

Google originally said it resolved the issue in Chrome 73, explaining that it wouldn’t disable the experiment because devs should use the beta build of the browser and the number of impacted users is very small.

“At this point, if this is the only breakage in the experiment we’re not rolling back. The reason is that as a relative percentage of users of Chrome, this is still small (e.g. less than 0.1%),” Google explained.

“When launching multi-year projects that impact a large part of the codebase, it’s impossible to avoid any regressions. We have to balance making forward progress and avoiding other regressions creeping in with breaking some edge cases. The best way for extension authors to avoid this is to use dev/beta channels.”Fix coming later this weekNow Google says it has resolved all issues related to the new experiment and promises to resolve the bug with a patch that would be released for all Chrome 72 installations later this week.

“The fix will go out this week in an update to 72. Please switch to Chrome beta and not stable; fixing these regressions is much easier for everyone and won’t impact users if they’re brought up in beta,” a Google engineer explained.

A workaround already exists if you want to repair broken extensions in Google Chrome, and you can find it explained in detail in this article. I expect the new Chrome update to be rolled out tomorrow for all supported platforms.
 
 
 
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