That said, what I don't get is why the likes of Brave and Opera, albeit with smaller userbases and fewer business-critical users, can act with much greater haste. The latest May Patch Tuesday update has caused authentication failures for multiple business users and an out-of-band update to the original update is expected soon. You only have to look at the situation with the latest Patch Tuesday rollout of security updates for Windows users to see evidence of what can go wrong.

I get that Microsoft needs to ensure that any fixes it applies are safe to use across a broad userbase. As with all Chromium-based browsers, downloading and installing the update is not enough on its own you must restart the browser before it can be initiated and start protecting you from potential danger. In the meantime, however, I suggest you follow the instructions as detailed below in order to keep tabs (no pun intended) on the arrival of the security fix. The Microsoft press office assures me they will look into this for me, so I hope to be able to update you with an answer in due course. I have reached out to Microsoft to ask what the reasons are for this delay and, indeed, why Microsoft Edge users always seem to have to wait longer than Chrome, Brave or Opera users to be protected from known vulnerabilities. We are actively working on releasing a security fix.' A May 10 posting states: 'Microsoft is aware of the recent Chromium security fixes. It's not as if Microsoft is unaware of the vulnerabilities, of course, and a quick check of the Microsoft Edge security updates release notes confirms this. At the time of writing, and I've been checking on an hourly basis today, some 48 hours after the Google Chrome update was announced, Edge users still cannot update the security of their browser. Which brings me to the not so good news for users of the world's second most popular desktop browser, Microsoft Edge.

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