Google Chrome Browser Issues and Questions Thread

In Chrome settings under use secure DNS, when i type in my custom URL and press enter nothing happens. The URL just sits there like i need to press enter but i already did it. My custom URL is
https://doh.cleanbrowsing.org/doh/security-filter/ ..... Chrome secure DNS is not working according to Cloudflare’s Browsing Experience Security Check.

 

BTW, did you guys know that the Chrome phishing filter worked like this? I thought it was pretty interesting, and I assume it works the same in all other Chromium browsers? That's what not clear to me.

https://blog.chromium.org/2021/07/m92-faster-and-more-efficient-phishing-detection.html

 

https://9to5google.com/2021/06/29/google-chrome-to-offer-https-only-mode/ ....... https://www.techradar.com/news/google-chrome-will-actively-direct-you-away-from-insecure-websites

 

The extension icons at the top of the screen can't be adjusted anymore to the right or left to show or hide icons.

 

New Chrome security measure aims to curtail an entire class of Web attack

https://arstechnica.com/information...ims-to-curtail-an-entire-class-of-web-attack/

 

It should be noted that installing uBlock Origin and enabling the "Block Outsider Intrusion into LAN" filterlist does the same. So nothing new and available for all browsers supported by uBO.

 

Thanks, I hadn't noticed that before because you have to expand the view in privacy filter lists.

 

@summerheat thanks. I hadn't noticed it either.

 

Weird that they allow this in Chrome, but not in Firefox. I believe Opera has added clipboard protecion against malware that tries to steal crypto currencies. However, this protects against apps from changing to the clipboard, not against websites if I'm correct.

https://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2022/02/opera-84/

 

Seems like Google has beefed up Chrome's security, this new tech should lower ''remote code excution'' bugs. But once again it's not clear to me if all browsers based on Chromium will profit from it. But it has one huge drawback, it will increase RAM usage by 6.5%, not a problem on systems with 16GB RAM I guess. But on my Win 10 laptop with 8GB it's a problem. I truly think it's ridiculous how much RAM Vivaldi is using.

https://security.googleblog.com/2022/09/use-after-freedom-miracleptr.html

 

They will profit as they share the same codebase.

It should be noted, though, that Firefox offers protection against those bugs as well. Google says that "Around 70% of our high severity security bugs are memory unsafety problems (that is, mistakes with C/C++ pointers). Half of those are use-after-free bugs." These memory-related are exactly the ones Rust protects against. Granted, only about 10% of the complete Firefox codebase is written in Rust - but the point is that a crucial part of the browser, namely the rendering engine (WebRender), is completely written in Rust.

 

Let's hope so, because sometimes I get the impression that certain features only make it to Chrome, and not to other Chromium based browsers. And cool that Firefox finally also takes security a bit more seriously. I must say it has been quite a while since I read about a zero day in Firefox, while Chrome is full of RCE's.

 

Google Chrome is reportedly riddled with security issues by Sead Fadilpasic

 

He's not the only one reporting this:
Google Chrome is by far the most vulnerable browser in 2022: Study - Neowin

 

This doesn't really surprise me about Chrome. I have suspected for a while that Google had dropped the ball a bit.

 

Don't forget that almost all browsers are now chromium-based and share those vulnerabilities and introduce a few of their own...
When you work with a chromium base and add your own stuff you will add more vulnerabilities.
Example:
Release notes for Microsoft Edge Security Updates | Microsoft Learn

 

What they however forget to mention is how many of these bugs can be used for remote code attacks, in other words, how many can be used to automatically run malware on people's machines. Most of these issues aren't really a serious threat.

And this is also because of Chromium's built-in sandbox, running code inside the sandboxed browser process isn't enough to do any serious damage. And perhaps more security researchers are focused on Chrome because it's the most used browser in the world?

 

Mostly a handful of hyperbolic articles to provoke a response from Chrome users. Most threats aren't serious threats or we would experience more of them.

 

Firefox has but a tiny fraction of chromium browsers' market share, naturally there will be a lot more vulnerabilities found in the chromium browsers, especially google chrome as it has 70% market share or more. If they had equal market share, god help firefox. Let's also not forget that none managed to hack chrome in pwn2own, while firefox was getting owned left and right. Chrome has always been known as more secure and faster than firefox, while firefox has been known as more private

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/05/21/p...-ubuntu-firefox-safari-tesla-and-more-hacked/

comment quote:

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2022/5/18/pwn2own-vancouver-2022-the-results

Chromium is just superior than firefox in almost every aspect except privacy

 

In chrome, websites can write to the clipboard, but not read from it without permission.

 

In version 107, writing will no longer be allowed.

 

yep. i used to use chromium canary so i can see the new features in advance but i got tired of constant bugs and stuff like that so i switched to the stable version