FS#45375 - [chromium] unconditionally downloads binary blob

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by matanya (matanyam) - Thursday, 18 June 2015, 10:25 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Thursday, 18 June 2015, 11:06 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
After upgrading chromium to 43, immediately after the machine is on-line it silently starts downloading "Chrome Hotword Shared Module" extension, which contains a binary without source code. There seems no opt-out config.

See debian bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909

Additional info:
* package version(s) : 43
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Thursday, 18 June 2015, 11:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#45349 
Comment by David Phillips (phillid) - Thursday, 18 June 2015, 10:37 GMT
This is already addressed by `add-build-flag-to-disable-hotwording.patch` and `-Denable_hotwording=0` in _chromium_conf.

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