Yandex Browser works fine with KB5046687 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 YaBrowser/24.10.0.0 Safari/537.36
Moin @ All! My November 2024 ESUpdate experience for Windows 7 Pro / Enterprise SP1 x64 systems: "Licensing method": KB4528069 & "new" BypassESU-v13 "Installing method": Manual download and installation via Microsoft®Update-Catalog KB5046258 (Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 4.8) -> succesfully installed KB5046630 (Cumulative Security Update for IE 11 for Windows Server 2008 R2) -> succesfully installed KB5046705 (Security Only Quality Update for Windows Server 2008 R2) -> succesfully installed but afterwards the Firefox 115.17.0esr (64-Bit) browser no longer works. Uninstallation of KB5046705 solves the issue and Firefox works correctly again. The following additional updates were offered by the Microsoft servers via the Windows Update Search and were also successfully installed: Security Intelligence-Update for Microsoft Security Essentials and .NET 6.0.36 Security Update for x64 Client (KB5047486). Please Note: This is the last update for .NET 6 (LTS). Support ends with this update! @ abbodi1406: The new bypass ESU validation for .NET 4 updates works well. Great job & thx for your support!
Take with a grain of salt. ;>)) Navigator is correct. For me it is not an alternative due to trust issues. Providence is huge. Browsers from countries such as Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, etc. are not going to end up "voluntarily" on my computer. A huge reason for the security software on my systems are due to hacking malware from those global locations; not all but a huge percentage. Caveat emptor. ;>)) I think @ abbodi1406 could be right in that MS has released updates that are specific to a server which may not be considered to be internet facing; in other words not a browser based machine. Still it could be a corrupt update file inside the update that will get fixed in a week or 2. By someone, somewhere. ;>))
I tend to follow SInclair ZX81's Patch Tuesday update posts as I am also using Windows 7 Pro (X64). Yesterday I installed :- KB5046258 (Sec & Qual Rollup .Net4.8 Server 2008 R2 (x64)) KB5046705 (Sec Only Server 2008 R2 (x64) I didn't install KB5047486 as I don't use IE11. (I think I disabled it). Edited Thurs 14th Nov 2024:- apologies for my error in my original post. Since I posted saying I had not experienced any browser problems I can now report that my Firefox 115.17.0 ESR (x64) has crashed 4 or 5 times since yesterday.
Thanks for sharing your info & experiences. I follow your post month to month as my update process is very similar.
Both the updates you listed KB5046258 are the same and are for .net 4.8. Did you try to install KB5046687? That's the update which has been breaking some browsers functionality.
So you installed KB5046258 twice & did not install the Security Rollup? It is the security/quality rollup (KB5046687)/(KB5046705) that is doing the damage. .
Generally, I got chrome someway broken 2+ years before. Not completely broken, but with one annoying thing - if I use anything that use torrents to download (no difference if it is utorrent or game launcher found updates) - it also gives very high chance that all running chrome instances will hang and last chrome.exe can't be killed by all process managers I have, also the same can happen to all aps that use CEF, and the same - if chrome was not running - after it 1st start after use torrent protocol. Firefox works fine at the same time. Only way to get normal flow from this situation is only full PC reboot. I tried to google - and found just same cases but no solution. Probably it happened after one of ESU updates long ago, I'm not sure. @abbodi1406 can .NET ESU bypas cause such behavior ? Generally I see nothing another strange things having it installed. It looks that only msiexec behavior is altered and that shouldn't do anything with chrome & torrents... Now I got KB5046687 also installed and after reboot there be also KB5046258 and let's see what new bugs I'll get Upd: Yep, I got new bugs. Tabs on firefox and edge die immediately, uninstalled KB5046687 and it looks working again.
Good to hear that. Possible problems like this are why I never install Windows Security Updates soon after Patch Tuesday. I always wait at least a few weeks if not months to see if there are serious issues first.
I have also confirmed myself using a Windows 7 Ultimate (Traditional Chinese) VMware virtual machine that KB5044356 does not cause any visible problems, while KB5046687 causes Firefox ESR 115.17.0 to break. This is a picture of Firefox ESR 115.17.0 viewing a website after applying KB5044356 in the virtual machine : (Normal view) The same virtual machine running Firefox ESR 115.17.0 viewing the same site after applying KB5046687 : (Error in tab) We will have to wait and see if Microsoft will fix this problem with KB5046687 / KB5046705 or just leave it as is, disregarding the fact that it causes problems with Windows 7 x64.
My apologies ryegrass. I have edited my original post. As for KB5046687, I didn't install that because I used the Security Only update KB5046705. However, my Firefox browser has crashed 5 times since my original post, so KB5046705 also may be the culprit.