"Googlification" has been my main reason for avoiding chrom{e,ium} until now. This could become my main browser.
IMHO Chrome has a better track record than Firefox when it comes to security issues, but Firefox has better privacy.
IMHO Chrome has a better track record than Firefox when it comes to security issues, but Firefox has better privacy.
Blocking 3rd party ads and trackers really speeds things up!
https://it.slashdot.org/submission/5553519/pwn2own-2016-wont...
The worst Firefox might do is get your machine pwned.
Chrome is the one running any x86 binary the website presents it with, only trying to run a static verification that it won't do anything evil.
Chrome is far more at risk of pwning you (and NaCl sandbox breakouts have been quite common).
Point is, Chrome falls every year at Pwn2Own just like every other browser, but only Firefox has been excluded because it's too easy.
Any website can run NaCl code, you realize that? Even TIDAL uses it on its site for native playback.
Even pages only accessed over HTTP.
Looking through the previous year's results, it doesn't seem like firefox has done especially poorly?
And as noted in https://redd.it/45epd7, firefox multiprocess is sandboxed, and it does have security features that other browsers don't have
so... IMO it doesn't seem like the reason given is quite genuine?