Even maintaining a derivative browser carries risk from a security perspective.Who, exactly, are you signing up to maintain this new Fedora browser? Are you volunteering to build and maintain this browser yourself?.A browser has a huge amount of code, vastly more than most applications. Even if it is mostly applying patching from other places, keeping that updated in a timely fashion on a rapidly changing codebase the size of the Chromium browser is a big deal. I think you are underestimating how much work would need to go into what you are proposing.

I would worry more about that risk than some of the others you are highlighting. Depending on the browser, this can be days, weeks or even months later. One of the problems with many derivative browsers such as the ones you mention, is the delay between when security patches are released for the upstream browser and when they are incorporated downstream. My opinion is Firefox is a great choice for a default browser. In the end, a browser of choice is a matter of personal preference. That article is focused on certain aspects of security but each individual needs to consider their own risk model and determine what is best for them. Like Privacy, security is complicated issue and there are many factors to consider. Once Google disables webRequest blocking, many privacy-related add-ons will take a huge hit to effectiveness or simply go away.

Despite the fact that there are many contributors towards Chromium, Google has complete control over the code base. From a privacy perspective, Firefox offers several advantages over Chromium and that gap will only widen in the future. I don’t really agree with your perspective here.įirst privacy and security are not the same. Switch to chomium will increase privacy and security of fedora users

Brave chromium based