What Chromium versions are major browsers are on?

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53 points | by skaul 59 minutes ago

9 comments

  • butz 46 minutes 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.
    • captn3m0 28 minutes 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 0 minutes ago
      Just wanted to write the same comment!
    • nicoburns 41 minutes 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.
  • dataflow 40 minutes 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?

  • quantumleaper 41 minutes 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...

  • pimlottc 20 minutes 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.
  • UberFly 35 minutes 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.
  • koolala 6 minutes ago
    Could add the Meta Quest browser
  • mm263 54 minutes ago
    Please add Helium
    • Yehoshaphat 15 minutes ago
      I second this motion.
    • wswin 9 minutes ago
      and Ungoogled Chromium
  • jjmarr 45 minutes ago
    Shouldn't it also show the version number of the browser the user is currently on?
  • crazysim 45 minutes ago
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