Advice Request How fast do Chromium based browsers follow Google's Chrome updates/releases?

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Lenny_Fox

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The only way to fight or confirm impressions or hearsay is by factual data. Therefore I am asking forum members using a Chromium based browser (.e.g Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Woolyss Chromium, Ungoogled, etc) to post when they receive an update which contains the security updates of Google's Chrome's latest.

To kick off with latest thread from MalwareTips Bot

May 20, 2020 Google Chrome 83.0.4103.61 has been released


When you use a different Chromium based browser please post when you received this update also


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For data gathering one confirmation per browser would be sufficient. When the mods also think this information ads value to the Browsers & Extension forum section, please make it a sticky. When this thread becomes a sticky (and members keep this a clean thread, with limited off topic posts) I promise to collect the data and publish it in a spreadsheets to monitor the update delay of different Chromium variants.

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Lenny_Fox

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Gandalf, thanks

I could not find 'Secure DNS lookups' as an option in edge://flags. Then I realized, I had set group policies for edge with regedit (option only available in flags for Edge instanced not controlled by group policy), so I added it manually with regedit.
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@Lenny_Fox You may would like to keep both Vivaldi and Yandex on your table, @Moonhorse mentioned Vivaldi, quotes below:
Vivaldi usually installs security updates on same day than google chrome, but when it comes to new version like 83 in this case, snapshot of vivaldi is at 83 currently and there is no rush to update stable to 83 as fast as possible.
 

Lenny_Fox

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Update

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N.B.

Edge-chromium has code integrity guard enabled for renderer processes, meaning a (sub)process rendering a webpage can't load dll's which are not signed by Microsoft. Security aware Edge-chromium users can enable the flags #edge-de-elevate-on-launch, which de-elevates the main (broker) process when Edge-chroimium is launched with high integrity rights (system or admin), this effectively keeps the main (broker) process in a standard user (sand)box.
 

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@Lenny_Fox You may would like to keep both Vivaldi and Yandex on your table, @Moonhorse mentioned Vivaldi, quotes below:
Indeed, Yandex was updated several times since 83 was released. I wonder, whether they have fixed vulnerabilities themselves? It has zero changelog. :(

I have just checked and I do not even have the latest version, they keep minor updating way too often. 😅
 

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