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How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

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Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

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post #8

> Why does Chromium version lag matter? > users are exposed to known, already-patched security vulnerabilities Then why only focus on major versions? Don't minor versions/revisions have security fixes?

Yes and also stable isn't the only maintained branch of Chromium, there's also extended stable (currently 146.x). LTS exists too (144.x), but I believe it's meant only for ChromeOS.

Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

#25
post #3

I would like to see all "desktop" applications that use Electron listed and how big of a Chromium drift is there, especially how many applications are shipping runtimes with unfixed vulnerabilities.

We did a study of this a few years ago[1] and the code for the instrumentation is available on github[2], the data is dated but you can see a cross section of popular apps and how far behind they were lagging over a 3 year period on page 11 of the pdf. Re: child comment, our main concern in this research was patched vulnerabilities persisting in electron apps and how damaging that could be. Details in the paper :)

1. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity24-ali.pdf 2. https://github.com/masood/inspectron

Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

#27

Please don’t use green/red schemes, it’s the most common form of colorblindness and it’s especially bad with such pale shades.

Red/green is the most common way to show bad/good, error/success, etc.

Using any other color scheme would just confuse everyone instead of only colorblind people... how would that be any better?

Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

#28
post #8

> Why does Chromium version lag matter? > users are exposed to known, already-patched security vulnerabilities Then why only focus on major versions? Don't minor versions/revisions have security fixes?

In a perfect world, there would be a stable version of chrome, that would get fixes, but would crucially not get the new features that introduce new vulnerabilities. Not a fun job, I know, but with today’s coding agents it wouldn’t even be an unreasonable ask.

Re: How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

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post #27

Please don’t use green/red schemes, it’s the most common form of colorblindness and it’s especially bad with such pale shades.

Red/green is the most common way to show bad/good, error/success, etc. Using any other color scheme would just confuse everyone instead of only colorblind people... how would that be any better?

White with black text for success and black with white text for failure. People would figure it out.
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