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Because it is the only browser that is not tied hand-and-foot to some major global commercial player, and because each and every browser ever launched had security issues.

Even lynx is not immune:

http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-5836/...

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Even with all Mozilla's been doing lately (Hello, Pocket), I still trust them more than Google. That probably says more about the latter, though.

> Because it is the only browser that is not tied hand-and-foot to some major global commercial player

Not close to true. There are hundreds of browsers out there. I used Surf[0] and Xombrero[1] for a number of years.

[0] http://surf.suckless.org

[1] https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero

thank you! first time I hear about xombrero

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