Tag: edge

SameParty cookie attribute

While Google has made strides to remove cookies, there was a recent addition to the Chromium product upon which Chrome, Safari, and Edge are based.

I saw this written up as the following:

The SameParty attribute takes no value, and requires that the cookie also specify the “Secure” attribute, and not specify “SameSite=Strict”. If either of these constraints is violated, the cookie will be considered invalid, and will not be set. “SameSite=Strict” is not supported because “SameSite=Strict” is intended as a security boundary, rather than a privacy boundary (which First-Party Sets aims to establish). Valid use-cases of “SameSite=Strict” in cross-site contexts should not be loosened even when the sites are same-party.

Better stated…

  • The SameParty attribute is specified without a value (as are Secure and HttpOnly) as ;SameParty;
  • The Secure attribute is required in order to use the SameParty attribute. Any cookie specifying SameParty without Secure will be rejected as invalid.
  • Additionally, any cookie specifying SameParty in the presence of SameSite=Strict will be rejected as invalid.

While I’ve seen this implemented in versions of Chrome 89+, it is not yet adopted in Firefox (and may never be).

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Microsoft ending support and removing Legacy Edge on Windows 10

Another Microsoft browser bites the dust. Legacy Edge, the original “Edge” on that was designed to replace MSIE on Windows 10 before Microsoft changed direction and used the same underlying engine already used by Chromium, Chrome and Safari is finally going away. During it’s short tenure and overlap with Chromium Edge, it’s lead to a lot of confusion by users that are not aware of the vastly different versions of ‘Edge’. Fortunately its support ended on March 9th, 2021 and it will be removed by Windows Update with the upcoming patch expected on April 13th 2021.

Remove language packs from Windows 7

I often have to install different languages/locales on Windows 7 to perform testing in different languages, unfortuately adding all of them into a single installation can take a lot of space, particularly when using a virtual machine.

Using the usual method to ‘remove installed software’ will remove updates, but leaves the languages in place, to completely remove them you must open a command prompt and execute the following:


LPKSETUP

Select the languages you wish to remove, and click continue… it will take a while, but the languages will be removed one at a time.

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