Even among security people, the conversation about why Chrome is materially more secure than Firefox is complicated.
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We would all benefit from a detailed breakdown of the differences between Chrome and Firefox, like Google commissioned for Edge and Chrome.
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Unfortunately, nobody really has any incentive to fund that work — and doing it right is expensive — so a lot of the most important details will remain obscure.
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It’s even more socially complicated because Firefox is catching up, and employs security engineers everyone respects.
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Nobody really working in the field has basically any incentive to provide at-risk users (or their tech advisors) with a serious breakdown.
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We are at the point in 2017 where if you’re not a target and/or you know exactly what you’re doing, FF is fine. Actually: all of Edge/FF/Chrome are.
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(Pretty much the same place we’re at with iPhones, which are safer than Android phones, which can be made asymptotically as secure as iPhones.)
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People's ability to secure an Android phone is inversely proportional to their need for a secure phone
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On the other hand, there is no such thing as a secure phone.
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