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Re:Ask HN: Firefox vs. Chrome security by styfle on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @11:41AM (#15705069)
Are there historical records for number of "critical" vulnerabilities found in browsers? It would be interesting to compare the number for different browsers.

Update Maybe this:

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?v...

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/9900/Microsoft-Internet-Ex...

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Re:Ask HN: Firefox vs. Chrome security by mccr8 on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @12:08PM (#15705349)
Comparing the number of CVEs is not a good way to compare how vulnerable different browsers are. For instance, I believe that Firefox and maybe Chrome bucket together multiple internally reported vulnerabilities into a single CVE.
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Re:Ask HN: Firefox vs. Chrome security by lawnchair_larry on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @12:17PM (#15705438)
Don't do this, it's an anti-metric. Unless you think Opera and Konqueror are the most secure browsers.
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