Google Chrome Most Resilient Against Attacks, Researchers Find (helpnetsecurity.com)

Between Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Internet Explorer, Chrome has been found to be the most resilient against attacks, an analysis by security researchers has found. Firefox, Safari, and Opera were not included in the test. From a report: "Modern web browsers such as Chrome or Edge improved security in recent years. Exploitation of vulnerabilities is certainly more complex today and requires a higher skill than in the past. However, the attack surface of modern web browsers is increasing due to new technologies and the increasing complexity of web browsers themselves," noted Markus Vervier, Managing Director of German IT security outfit X41 D-Sec (and one of the researchers involved in the analysis). The researchers' aim was to determine which browser provides the highest level of security in common enterprise usage scenarios.

Comments

Why even compare

[volodymyrbiryuk]

Chrome to the slow kid and his autistic older brother.

Uh, Chrome vs Firefox is all that matters

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, what is the point of this unless it compares Chrome to Firefox. Those are the only ones that actually matter!

Re:Open Source is a failure.

[brianerst]

And the memory leaks are largely caused by an unsafe extension system that is being replaced by a new, more thread-safe extension system. And the wailing and gnashing of teeth continue.

"Firefox has memory leaks!"
"Fixed the ones in Firefox, the rest are bad extensions (probably AdBlock)"

"Firefox's Javascript is slow!"
"Fixed that"

"Firefox is slow"
"We'll move to a new threading model that's lots faster and requires us to fix our leaky extension model too"

"You're breaking my extensions - why don't you listen to what your users WANT???"
[sigh...]