Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)used in the wild
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Re: Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)used in the wild
#2I use Firefox on Ubuntu and Android. I love Firefox more than Chromium-based browsers. But security is the one thing that makes me think of switching.
Two minor things that prevent me from switching to Chromium-based browsers:
1. There is no addon functionality on Android for Chromium-based browsers. For example, I can add the uBlock addon on Firefox for Android but not Chrome for Android.
2. There is no option to place the address bar at the bottom of the screen for one-handed usage, as in Firefox Android.
Re: Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)used in the wild
#3I use Firefox on Ubuntu and Android. I love Firefox more than Chromium-based browsers. But security is the one thing that makes me think of switching. Two minor things that prevent me from switching to Chromium-based browsers: 1. There is no addon functionality on Android for Chromium-based browsers. For example, I can add the uBlock addon on Firefox for Android but not Chrome for Android. 2. There is no option to pl…
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Re: Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)used in the wild
#4I use Firefox on Ubuntu and Android. I love Firefox more than Chromium-based browsers. But security is the one thing that makes me think of switching. Two minor things that prevent me from switching to Chromium-based browsers: 1. There is no addon functionality on Android for Chromium-based browsers. For example, I can add the uBlock addon on Firefox for Android but not Chrome for Android. 2. There is no option to pl…
I have found brave to be a decent chromium-based browser for android if the only addon needed is for ad blocking. It has a bottom toolbar provides a similar experience to the firefox bottom address bar.
Re: Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)used in the wild
#5I use Firefox on Ubuntu and Android. I love Firefox more than Chromium-based browsers. But security is the one thing that makes me think of switching. Two minor things that prevent me from switching to Chromium-based browsers: 1. There is no addon functionality on Android for Chromium-based browsers. For example, I can add the uBlock addon on Firefox for Android but not Chrome for Android. 2. There is no option to pl…
I agree with you entirely. My third reason to stick with Firefox is to vote with my feet regarding browser engine diversity.
Re: Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)used in the wild
#6I use Firefox on Ubuntu and Android. I love Firefox more than Chromium-based browsers. But security is the one thing that makes me think of switching. Two minor things that prevent me from switching to Chromium-based browsers: 1. There is no addon functionality on Android for Chromium-based browsers. For example, I can add the uBlock addon on Firefox for Android but not Chrome for Android. 2. There is no option to pl…
Do you really think Chrome is safer than Firefox?
Re: Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)used in the wild
#7I use Firefox on Ubuntu and Android. I love Firefox more than Chromium-based browsers. But security is the one thing that makes me think of switching. Two minor things that prevent me from switching to Chromium-based browsers: 1. There is no addon functionality on Android for Chromium-based browsers. For example, I can add the uBlock addon on Firefox for Android but not Chrome for Android. 2. There is no option to pl…
Why would this make you think Firefox is less secure? They've publicly disclosed they've fixed an issue. That's what you want.
Re: Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)used in the wild
#8I use Firefox on Ubuntu and Android. I love Firefox more than Chromium-based browsers. But security is the one thing that makes me think of switching. Two minor things that prevent me from switching to Chromium-based browsers: 1. There is no addon functionality on Android for Chromium-based browsers. For example, I can add the uBlock addon on Firefox for Android but not Chrome for Android. 2. There is no option to pl…
I'm not sure there's that much difference in browser security. There were tiny nits where Chrome was somewhat stricter that I was aware of (e.g. handling of nosniff header), but most of that has been fixed at some point. Mozilla was somewhat slower with some security improvements like site isolation, but eventually catched up.
Memory safety is a general problem, but all browsers have it. "We urgently fixed this use after free bug because we've seen exploits in the wild" is something you can read about Chrome every now and then as well. It's not good, but noone has a solution for that right now. With Rust Mozilla is at least working on getting a handle on that.
Re: Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)used in the wild
#9I use Firefox on Ubuntu and Android. I love Firefox more than Chromium-based browsers. But security is the one thing that makes me think of switching. Two minor things that prevent me from switching to Chromium-based browsers: 1. There is no addon functionality on Android for Chromium-based browsers. For example, I can add the uBlock addon on Firefox for Android but not Chrome for Android. 2. There is no option to pl…
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Re: Mozilla patches two use-after-free vulnerabilities (ab)used in the wild
#10I use Firefox on Ubuntu and Android. I love Firefox more than Chromium-based browsers. But security is the one thing that makes me think of switching. Two minor things that prevent me from switching to Chromium-based browsers: 1. There is no addon functionality on Android for Chromium-based browsers. For example, I can add the uBlock addon on Firefox for Android but not Chrome for Android. 2. There is no option to pl…
I have found brave to be a decent chromium-based browser for android if the only addon needed is for ad blocking. It has a bottom toolbar provides a similar experience to the firefox bottom address bar.
I 2nd this