

There are, of course, exceptions to every rule. The Chrome-Based Browsers Worth Using: Opera, Vivaldi, and Chrome Portable

But Windows and Mac users should just install Chrome. A Chromium browser obtained from your Linux package repositories should be safe and receive regular security updates from your Linux distribution. That’s why Chromium is often made available via the package repositories on Linux distributions. RELATED: What’s the Difference Between Chromium and Chrome?Ĭhromium’s main difference is that it’s entirely open-source, while Google Chrome includes a few closed-source pieces (like Flash). These Chromium builds are really just development tools for checking whether issues are fixed in the latest Chromium code. They also don’t include an auto-update feature, so you have to manually download new versions with security and bug fixes. That’s why the Chromium project only offers “raw builds” of Chromium code that “may be tremendously buggy” for Windows. Google doesn’t want you using the open-source Chromium browser.

Chromium Isn’t For Users (Except on Linux) And if you enable those tweaks in Chrome, you’ll get the latest security updates without waiting for and trusting another company. Most of what SRWare Iron does is possible through Chrome’s regular privacy settings. RELATED: How to Optimize Google Chrome for Maximum Privacyīut here’s the real kicker: you aren’t really getting any extra privacy out of SRWare Iron. That’s because SRWare Iron’s developers have to do some work to release those security fixes whenever Google releases a new version of Chrome. It’s not instant, and these third-party projects may take a long time to issue updates if their developers are busy. That means SRWare Iron was missing more than 36 security fixes that Chrome had for over a week. The latest version of Chrome was version .110, released on March 16. Right off the bat, there’s something we don’t like: On March 17, 2017, the latest version of SRWare Iron was version. SRWare Iron promises to remove various privacy-infringing options from Google Chrome. But it isn’t as good as it sounds. SRWare Iron’s Privacy Claims Are Exaggerated, and It’s Slow to Update

Comodo doesn’t sound like a company we’d want to get our web browser from. Companies like Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Apple have never made such a big mistake in their products. Comodo did fix it eventually, but that doesn’t change the fact that such a glaring security problem shipped with the browser. Comodo responded by issuing a fix that didn’t actually fix the problem.
