[Cialug] Chromium vs. Chrome

[Jared Brees]

Perhaps slightly deviating from the original topic, I'm curious about the claim that Chrome is the "most insecure" browser. Especially since Firefox generally falls pretty quick in browser-hacking competitions (like Pwn2Own), leaving Chrome standing the longest.

What are you basing that claim on, besides being tougher to disable JavaScript (which would break almost every modern website anyway)?
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Subject: Re: [Cialug] Chromium vs. Chrome

I know Google Hangouts claims to not work as well in Firefox, but works
just fine (though it does seem a bit buggier.)

This mentions that the issue with Hangouts originally was that their WebRTC
backend was not spec-compliant. I wonder if that's the case with other
services, decent video conferencing in the browser is still fairly new and
before the specs shaked out and were implemented devs had to rely on a lot
of browser specific hacks to get it to work at all.
https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/firefox-is-now-supported-by-google-hangouts-and-meet/

You can also always try fudging your user agent.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 6:08 PM David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you sure you don't just need to update to a newer browser version?
>
> -dc
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 4:44 PM Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
>
> > Wow, really?  Which web apps refuse linux?
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 4:36 PM Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020, 16:20 L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Too many sites nowdays are only supporting Chrome, .. yet Chrome is
> the
> > > > most insecure browser in the market (i.e. no way to block JS, for
> those
> > > of
> > > > us that care.
> > >
> > >
> > > With all this video conferencing lately this has been bugging me to no
> > end.
> > > Most services that people use just refuse to work on Firefox, and some
> > even
> > > refuse Linux no matter what browser you're using.
> > >
> > > The Pax Browser era is over. The Middle Ages have begun again.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Todd
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