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Ask HN: Is Firefox team too small to do serious security tests?
With the year coming to an end, I was thinking about what would make me switch away from FF. There's only one thing: security. With a dwindling market share, and a C-suite that seems to be distracted at best, the risk is that the team is too small.
What do you think?
Looking at raw numbers of cve reports, FF is doing better than chrome:
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/3264/Mozilla-Firefox.html?vendor_id=452
https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?vendor_id=1224
But the severity of those reports is another matter. One single report could make a night and day difference.
- clouddrover 3y agoAdvertising networks are vectors for malware: https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/malvertising https://www.cisecurity.org/insights/blog/malvertising https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or-computer-via-the-ads-you-see-online-report-213685 https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or... Even the FBI recommends ad blockers: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624 https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624 So if you're concerned about security then you want the browser with the best ad blocker. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
- AtomicOrbital 3y agoyes and it doesn't hurt to be off OSX and Microsoft Windows
- mindcrash 3y agoAnother good choice would be Brave which has a builtin ad blocker which natively supports uBlock Origin style block lists.
- Sayrus 3y agoLooking at this from a pure CVE perspective, using Firefox rather than Chrome may reduce your exposure simply due to the fact that Firefox has a lower market share.
- TXCSwe 3y agoJust going on what vulnerbilities that have been found (and assigned a CVE number) is one thing. The real question should be, how big is the real number of vulnerbilities that have not been found yet.
- aborsy 3y agoIs there a meaningful difference between the major browsers in terms of security? It’s hard to say to be honest!
- botanicalfriend 3y agoI have the same worry (although I have no evidence, and haven’t done much research into finding evidence). I've slowly transitioned from FF to Chrome over the past year, for this reason. I still use both, but am trying to prepare myself for a time that comes when FF is no longer a viable primary browser.