Comodo Dragon (web browser)
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.png) Comodo Dragon 16.1, running on Windows 7, showing a security alert when opening Wikimedia Commons |
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| Developer(s) | Comodo Group |
| Stable release |
19.0.3.0 (based on Chromium 19.0.1083.46) / May 16, 2012 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Engine | WebKit |
| Development status | Active |
| Type | Web browser |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | www.comodo.com |
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]
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[2] designed to determine if a site hosts malicious code.
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.
In addition, the following Google Chrome features are removed or disabled in Dragon:[3]
- RLZ identifier, an encoded string sent together with all queries to Google[4] or once every 24 hours
- Automatic access to Google search on startup for users with Google as default search engine[5][6]
- "ClientID", a unique ID for identifying the user in logs
- Timestamp of when the browser was installed
- 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
- Google Native Client (NaCl) support
- H.264 codec
See also
References
- ^ Comodo Dragon, Comodo Group, Inc.
- ^ Comodo Site Inspector
- ^ A partial list of Dragon's differences vs. Chrome
- ^ "Google Chrome, Chromium, and Google". http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google-chrome-chromium-and-google.html. Retrieved 28 January 2010. See Which Google Domain
- ^ "View of /trunk/src/chrome/browser/google/google_url_tracker.cc". http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/google/google_url_tracker.cc?annotate=16699#l31. Retrieved 15 November 2010. Source code comment on line 31
- ^ "Google Chrome, Chromium, and Google". http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google-chrome-chromium-and-google.html. Retrieved 28 January 2010. See Which Google Domain
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