We intent to keep up with Chromium releases. We want to catch Chromium 57 a week or so after it’s release. Our current plan is to skip Dragon 56 and move to Dragon 57 aiming for a release of Dragon 57 release around the 3rd week in March, shortly after Chromium 57. If just talking about the supposedly stable builds, Comodo Dragon v52 (12.9.16) was updated to v55 (23.3.17) AFTER Chrome had been on v57 (9.3.17) for two weeks. “The biggest “lagger” is UC Browser” that surprises me. Now You: Do you run a Chromium based browser? Which and why? Anything less means that it will lag behind and remains vulnerable to security issues that were fixed already by the Chromium team. This means that the browser is vulnerable to attacks that are fixed already in other browsers.Ī rule of thumb would be that a browser should be updated at least once a month to keep up with Chromium development. This is bad from a security perspective for the most part, as security fix implementations are delayed. Some browsers are updated infrequently only, and they may lack versions behind when compared to releases of browsers that are updated regularly. There is a wide disparity when it comes to Chromium-browser releases. Google Chrome is updated more frequently, and when it is updated, it is with newer builds of Chromium when compared to the releases of Vivaldi or Opera. While the updates are not as often as those of Google Chrome, it is probably not too big of an issue. Opera, Vivaldi and also SRWare Iron are updated regularly (usually once a month), and each update brings along with it a Chromium version increase. The Comodo Dragon browser falls in that category which seems to lag one or two versions behind the browsers that get updated more frequently. Other browsers don't lag that much behind releases, but they are not updated super fast either. The biggest "lagger" is UC Browser, which was last updated in February 2017 to a Chromium version that was released in April 2016. If you take a close look at the table, you will notice that third-party Chromium-based browsers lack behind more or less when it comes to updates. You can check the Chromium version in most of these browsers by loading chrome://version (or about://version). This article looks only at stable releases of the following browsers: Comodo Dragon, Google Chrome, Opera, Slimjet, SRWare Iron, UC Browser, Vivaldi. This means that a browser like Brave is not included (yet) for instance. Note that we included only stable browsers in the overview. In short: we take a look at the past four months, and find out when popular Chromium-based browsers got updated in that time. All of these browsers are based on Chromium, but how fast are they updated when a new Chromium version is published? Is Chrome really the fastest to get these updates, or are other browser makers even faster than Google?ĭo some browsers lack behind when it comes to updates? A delay in regards to security updates may increase the browser's attack vector when you are using it for instance.
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