3 years ago
Sun Jun 26, 2022 5:59pm PST
Ask HN: Most Secure Browser? Chromium?
I am looking for the most secure browser for daily browsing. Excluding any other parameter like privacy or functionality.

Chrome : the privacy breaches seem to be large enough to actually become a security threat as well. Is that a fair statement?

Firefox : seemed pretty good to me until I read this article https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.html. It claims that Firefox is more insecure than Chrome/Chromium, in large part because of a weaker sandboxing mechanism. Even if this mechanism seems to be catching up, this points to a significant lag in Firefox's security

Safari : is it secure?

Chromium : it seems to be the best bet to me, because it seems to contain the best security mechanisms, without the Google spyware. However: 1) it does not seem to provide an automatic update system 2) I read that it's unstable because it contains bleeding edge code. That actually sounds like it's less safe than chrome because of that => is there a way to know which Chromium version Chrome is using, and just using this version?

I am grateful for any thoughts.

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