Comodo Dragon is a freeware web browser. It is an implementation of Chromium and is produced by Comodo Group. Sporting a similar interface to Google Chrome, Dragon eliminates Chrome's usage tracking and some other potentially privacy-compromising features, and provides additional security measures, such as indicating the authenticity and relative strength of a website's SSL certificate.[1] [2]
Differences from Chrome
Upon installation, Comodo Dragon offers the opportunity to configure either the Dragon Comodo or the user's entire computer to use Comodo's own DNS servers instead of the user's internet service provider. Comodo Dragon performs additional checks on the SSL certificates of secure websites, and informs users if a site's certificate may be of insufficient strength. It includes an on-demand Site Inspector[3] designed to determine if a site hosts malicious code. [4]
Instead of Google Updater, Comodo Dragon features its own built-in Updater. If Dragon is uninstalled, users are given the option of keeping Dragon's cache and cookie files or deleting them.[5]
In addition, the following Google Chrome features are removed or disabled in Dragon:[6]
- Automatic access to Google Search on startup for users with Google as default search engine[7][8]
- Google-hosted error pages when a server is not present
- Automatic address bar search suggestions
- Bug tracking system, which sends information about crashes or errors
- Built-in PDF viewer and Adobe Flash Player which is sandboxed.
- Google Native Client (NaCl) support
- H.264 codec
- Google Safe Browsing which blocks malicious and phishing sites.
- Google Online Documents which can open many file types without having to download them to your system.
- Google Translate which can automatically translate webpages.
- Google Chrome is always based on the stable release of the open-source Chromium (web browser) core whereas Comodo Dragon is sometimes based on the beta releases.
- Google Chrome is the first Chromium web browser to receive the latest updates and patches for vulnerabilities whereas other Chromium browsers (like Comodo Dragon) have to wait for the open-source code releases and develop a new version of their product. Based on the time it takes for a new version to be released with the latest updates and patches, other Chromium browsers may be open to vulnerability exploits.
Reviews
infoworld, January 25 2012
practicalcommerce.com, August 2, 2010
cNet.com, June 17, 2010
pcadvisor.com, April 19, 2010
pcworld, April 13 2010
thepcsecurity.com, March 2010
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