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Re:Major Android Bug Is a Privacy Disaster (CVE-2014-6041) by TD-Linux on Monday September 15, 2014 @07:00PM (#8322075)
Almost all third-party browsers on the Play Store wrap the Android WebView, which is vulnerable. You'll need to use a browser that includes its own rendering engine, such as Firefox, to remain secure.
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Re:Major Android Bug Is a Privacy Disaster (CVE-2014-6041) by sucramb on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @02:29AM (#8323317)
The Android WebView uses since quite some time the same rendering and javascript engines as Chrome. Thus I would expect third party browsers to be no more vulnerable with regard to this bug than Chrome.

Edit: since 4.4 [https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/webview/overview]

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