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How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

https://chromium-drift.pages.dev/
81•skaul•1h ago

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mm263•1h ago
Please add Helium
Yehoshaphat•49m ago
I second this motion.
wswin•43m ago
and Ungoogled Chromium
dotcoma•7m ago
Helium rocks!
butz•1h ago
I would like to see all "desktop" applications that use Electron listed and how big of a Chromium drift is there, especially how many applications are shipping runtimes with unfixed vulnerabilities.
nicoburns•1h ago
I imagine that looks pretty bad. On the other hand, Electron apps often aren't running untrusted code, which makes it quite a bit harder to exploit.
josefx•30m ago
Didn't some get exploited early on because electron made it trivial to load third party websites without any kind of XSS protection?
captn3m0•1h ago
I've been working on this over the years. WIP is here: https://github.com/captn3m0/electron-survey, and it doesn't look good.

I keep getting distracted by side-quests. The last one was building an Electron Zoo, and the current one is doing accurate SBOMs for each electron version.

panzi•34m ago
Just wanted to write the same comment!
waitwhatwhoa•9m ago
We did a study of this a few years ago[1] and the code for the instrumentation is available on github[2], the data is dated but you can see a cross section of popular apps and how far behind they were lagging over a 3 year period on page 11 of the pdf. Re: child comment, our main concern in this research was patched vulnerabilities persisting in electron apps and how damaging that could be. Details in the paper :)

1. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/usenixsecurity24-ali.pdf 2. https://github.com/masood/inspectron

jjmarr•1h ago
Shouldn't it also show the version number of the browser the user is currently on?
koolala•40m ago
Which user?
catlikesshrimp•22m ago
The one visiting the website (tfa website)
koolala•9m ago
Why? What does tfa mean? I'm visiting it on Firefox.
quantumleaper•1h ago
Cool idea, but without longer-term tracking of how long each browser lags for each Chromium release, it's hard to draw any meaningful conclusions. It's also clear that in the case of major vulnerabilities, vendors would fast-track adoption of the patch.

I would definitely include the fact that "major" versions of Chromium are released every 2 weeks. For instance, Vivaldi is on version 146.0.7680.218 that released this Tuesday [1], only 5 days ago.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/f97d14f8a0a...

dopa42365•56m ago
More like 4 weeks than 2.

https://chromestatus.com/roadmap

dataflow•1h ago
> Why does Chromium version lag matter?

> users are exposed to known, already-patched security vulnerabilities

Then why only focus on major versions? Don't minor versions/revisions have security fixes?

xeeeeeeeeeeenu•21m ago
Yes and also stable isn't the only maintained branch of Chromium, there's also extended stable (currently 146.x). LTS exists too (144.x), but I believe it's meant only for ChromeOS.
UberFly•1h ago
This is somewhat useful, but I know for instance that Vivaldi is often one version behind for the sake of stability, but also will also release incremental security updates in the period before major version updates.
pimlottc•54m ago
Please don’t use green/red schemes, it’s the most common form of colorblindness and it’s especially bad with such pale shades.
xandrius•10m ago
It has text supporting the color, so it's fine.
shooly•6m ago
Red/green is the most common way to show bad/good, error/success, etc.

Using any other color scheme would just confuse everyone instead of only colorblind people... how would that be any better?

koolala•40m ago
Could add the Meta Quest browser
Fokamul•29m ago
This website, for me, it's named "List of all browsers I will never use".

Yet another reminder, lawmakers US/EU/Anywhere else, should force all browsers to actively block fingerprinting.

Retr0id•11m ago
Is "uptodown" really the canonical download page for Comet?

A point-in-time view is interesting but it's less useful than a graph over time.

Would be fun to add the version shipped in LG smart TVs (hint: it's ancient)

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How far behind is each major Chromium browser?

https://chromium-drift.pages.dev/
83•skaul•1h ago•25 comments

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