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According to BrowserAudit, Firefox is more secure than Chrome. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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“BrowserAudit checks that your web browser correctly implements a wide variety of security standards and features. Find out more.”

Firefox Nightly 90.0a1 beats Chrome Canary 92 in this test!

Firefox's results:

  • Passed: 369
  • Warning: 15
  • Critical: 0
  • Skipped: 20

Chrome's results:

  • Passed: 365
  • Warning: 18
  • Critical: 1
  • Skipped: 20
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

https://browseraudit.com/results/79825/38c2442dff15c19cb783739f3ed775470163aa88

Fennec F-Droid Stable, 87.0.0-RC1.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is not more secure, this is about equal. There needs to be a much bigger difference to make this bold claim. Also comparing the nightly and canary releases is of little relevance. I use production approved releases on my system in general.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is 3 years ago? Just pop up now.. :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

What a surprise \s

Haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

https://browseraudit.com/results/79846/f33b7c8e76950484eb77ef98c7eda99de1bc34eb 7 Criticals 20 Warnings, Version 90.0.4430.72 (Developer Build) built on Debian 11.0, running on Debian 11.0 (64-bit)

Firefox 88 results https://browseraudit.com/results/79850/45c92118adc60c3dbfc2fa1e182c96906a6423e7 Zero Criticals. firefox Installed: 88.0-1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Just tested Safari 16.4 and I got 404 passed, 27 warning, and 0 for both critical and skipped.

I also tested LibreWolf 114.0.1-2 and got 396 passed, 32 warnings, 0 critical, and 3 skipped.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

and in other news, water is wet.