[arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

[Daniel Micay]

On 17/07/15 12:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:30:05 -0400, Daniel Micay wrote:
>> The Tor browser is quite insecure. It's nearly the same thing as
>> Firefox, so it falls near the bottom of the list when it comes to
>> browser security, i.e. below even Internet Explorer, which has a basic
>> sandbox (but not nearly on par with Chromium, especially on Linux) and
>> other JIT / allocator hardening features not present at all in Firefox.
>> What the Tor browser *does* have that's unique are tweaks to
>> significantly reduce the browser's unique fingerprint.
>>
>> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/isec-partners-conducts-tor-browser-hardening-study
>>
>> Tor would be a fork of Chromium if they were starting again today with
>> a large team. They don't have the resources to switch browsers. That
>> would only change if they can get Google to implement most of the
>> features they need.
> 
> Vivaldi is based on Chromium. How does Vivaldi compare regarding
> security and privacy to IceCat, Pale Moon, Firefox, QupZilla, Opera?
> 
> https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=vivaldi
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=vivaldi

It's a proprietary browser built on Chromium. It's not interesting from
a security / privacy perspective.

If you want Chromium without Google integration then you can use
Iridium. It doesn't remove any tracking / spying code though. There
wasn't any to remove. Their redefinition of tracking just means support
for any service hosted by Google (like adding a warning message when a
dictionary would be downloaded from them). Most of what it does is
changing the the default settings to be more privacy conscious.

https://git.iridiumbrowser.de/cgit.cgi/iridium-browser/log/

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