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Google draws code for chrome from chromium and then they add their sauce. If it's wrong in chromium, then it's probably wrong in chrome. Not always, but there are very few differences between the two as far as the actual code goes.

Can you expand upon which parts of the security exactly you question?

Maybe I'm pinning it on the wrong thing, but there were spamwares and malwares that didn't pop up on that comp until my daughter put Chromium on it. I'm not one to buy into coincidences, and maybe it had more to do with whatever sites she was on, but all of the random unwanted programs that had installed themselves onto my computer were installed the same day that Chromium was. Katie assures me she only got Chromium, so they had to come from somewhere.


I tend to stick with Internet Explorer because I'm used to the controls and because other browsers have issues with the Army's certificates. For the longest time, I couldn't even check my paystub on Firefox, which was the Messiah of browsers back in the day. I stick with what works and what I know.

 Just Tony wrote:
I tend to stick with Internet Explorer because I'm used to the controls and because other browsers have issues with the Army's certificates. For the longest time, I couldn't even check my paystub on Firefox, which was the Messiah of browsers back in the day. I stick with what works and what I know.

For a while my work has IE as their “official” browser, so a lot of stuff had to be downloaded via IE whether you wanted to use it or not... but at the same time the employee self service didn’t work through IE So for a while I was using Chrome as my main browser, IE to do some stuff that work wouldn’t let me do through anything else, then Firefox to submit my time sheets, check my pay cheques and whatnot.

 Just Tony wrote:
Maybe I'm pinning it on the wrong thing, but there were spamwares and malwares that didn't pop up on that comp until my daughter put Chromium on it. I'm not one to buy into coincidences, and maybe it had more to do with whatever sites she was on, but all of the random unwanted programs that had installed themselves onto my computer were installed the same day that Chromium was. Katie assures me she only got Chromium, so they had to come from somewhere.

Look into where the browser was downloaded from (the official website is https://www.chromium.org/ ). If it was the official site then they should have some news if malware got injected. The one consumer based open source project that I remember where something like that happened, they had the news out in less than 24 hours, patched it out, and got a new download ready (I think it also removed any traces of the malware) in record time.

And if it was downloaded from some generic tools/downloads site they may have injected something themselves and you just got random ad-crap from them while thinking it's from Chromium.

I tend to stick with Internet Explorer because I'm used to the controls and because other browsers have issues with the Army's certificates. For the longest time, I couldn't even check my paystub on Firefox, which was the Messiah of browsers back in the day. I stick with what works and what I know.

MS/IE got on the good side of the government (and offered long term maintenance of their apps) and IE had all kinds of non-standard features that got used and that in turn made standard conforming browsers look broken. It took a long time to dislodge IE and all their security disasters from the browser Nr. 1 spot so that web devs could stop treating IE preferentially. Of course governments agencies tend to stick with what works (no matter the security issues). I don't know which IE version you are using but if it's a few years old try to find ways to upgrade it. It's for your own (internet browsing) safety. And use adblockers, there's too much ad-based malware (on normal websites, not some dark web sites).

 Xenomancers wrote:
What are he reasons people use different web browsers? I have always just used whatever windows product came with my PC and I've never had a problem...except when certain things require I use something else. Firefox has always taken care of that. I find these things to be more of an annoyance anyways. I am not a programmer so I don't know the the reasoning behind why one thing might require a certain web browsers anyways.

When you browse a lot, one gets used to certain type of user interface and switching to something which uses different logic is simply too much of a hassle to change the habits. For me, I am used to traditional Netscape/IE type layout, and I find Chrome slow and annoying to use with 'backwards' logic.

Also, some people might find it useful to have multiple browsers with different security settings. When browsing 'friendly' sites, hardass security settings slow you down but in some other sites they might be necessary.

Backfire wrote:

 Xenomancers wrote:
What are he reasons people use different web browsers? I have always just used whatever windows product came with my PC and I've never had a problem...except when certain things require I use something else. Firefox has always taken care of that. I find these things to be more of an annoyance anyways. I am not a programmer so I don't know the the reasoning behind why one thing might require a certain web browsers anyways.

When you browse a lot, one gets used to certain type of user interface and switching to something which uses different logic is simply too much of a hassle to change the habits. For me, I am used to traditional Netscape/IE type layout, and I find Chrome slow and annoying to use with 'backwards' logic.

Also, some people might find it useful to have multiple browsers with different security settings. When browsing 'friendly' sites, hardass security settings slow you down but in some other sites they might be necessary.

For me it's a continual drive to find the one with the UI that sucks the least. I reluctantly used Chrome for a while during Firefox's dark age of fething up their interface every other week. I'm back to firefox now though as they've settled on something that's actually not half bad to use and chrome scares the bejeesus out of me. I used Vivaldi for a while, but I got sick of every other poorly designed website going to pieces because they couldn't figure out how to tally a weird browser agent into their analytics. It's not Vivaldi's fault, but there's nothing more annoying than getting told that I need to upgrade from IE6 when I'm using a browser newer than the website that's bitching at me.

Only downside to Firefox right now is that Google's keeping the chromecast functionality close to their chest. I keep chrome around just for casting, and I have a plugin that lets me send a page I'm looking at in firefox to chrome with a single click, so that's nice. Firefox also lets you specify a separate proxy from the Windows system settings, which is handy, and plugins for advanced proxy tomfoolery hijack that setting, not your system one (unlike chrome).