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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by armitron on Sunday September 25, 2016 @09:47PM (#12578668)
Agreed on Safari/Edge but note that I didn't use the words "very secure" to describe Chrome in isolation.

How can something that gets publicly exploited year after year by _teenagers_ (1)(2) be called "very secure" ?

The grim reality is that we never had a browser than can be called even remotely secure. Major factors for that are the implementation languages (C++ and C) and the vast attack surface. It's disheartening to see this trend continue.

(1) http://www.tomsguide.com/us/pwn2own-browsers-2015,news-20680...

(2) http://blog.trendmicro.com/pwn2own-day-2-event-wrap/

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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by pcwalton on Monday September 26, 2016 @02:53AM (#12579795)
> Major factors for that are the implementation languages (C++ and C) and the vast attack surface. It's disheartening to see this trend continue.

You realize that there's only one browser which is starting to adopt alternative implementation languages, and it's not Chrome, right?

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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by gcp on Monday September 26, 2016 @09:30AM (#12581622)
How can something that gets publicly exploited year after year by _teenagers_ (1)(2) be called "very secure" ?

You're underestimating teenagers.

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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by om2 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @04:48PM (#12593048)
I guess I was grading on a curve when I said "very secure".
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