Comment on What's Mull browser about?
Asudox@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mull is a hardened fork of Firefox. I use it but some rare websites’ functionality does not work with it. Chromium is undoubtedly more secure but not privacy-friendly. I also don’t want to support the chromium monopoly, so I don’t use them. Brave as a browser also sucks. Shields suck. Nothing to this day has been better than uBlock Origin yet.
Bienenvolk@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Why do you claim Chromium is more secure than Firefox based browsers? Where there any security issues Firefox had but Chromium didn’t? Bugs in sandboxing?
Asudox@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Firefox’s sandboxing sucks ass (especially on Linux). Mozilla has still not implemented a better sandbox, despite the open discussion since years. GrapheneOS (a security and privacy focused aosp rom) uses Chromium for it’s browser Vanadium because it ultimately is undoubtedly more secure.
Bienenvolk@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Firstly, sandboxing is a part of layers of layers of security mechanisms. You cannot tell the overall security by just looking on it. In recent years, a lot has changed in Firefox’ sandbox. I don’t know if it cached up, but I’d guess it has become quite a good sandbox by now.
What is more important for me, however, is the discrepancy in zero days. Chromium just had more in the past. That may be due to the gap on market share and therefore interest of “hackers” but it shows that you can’t just claim that Firefox “sucks ass” and Chromium is safer.
I think there is just a lot of opinion in the internet regarding this topic while not a lot of information.