Google Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Quit Chrome
Google
Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Quit Chrome
May 28, 2020,06:20am EDT
Google has been reinventing Chrome recently, but the
company has also just revealed a powerful reason you should quit and move to a
rival browser.
In a bold new report (via ZDNet), Google engineers have revealed that “unsafe” code within Chrome
is responsible for 70% of its security vulnerabilities and 125 of the 130
“critical” bugs found in the browser over the last year.
05/28 Update: expanding
upon this story, it is important to note that Microsoft is already working on
replacing the C and C++ code code in its Chromium-based Edge browser with
Project Veronica, code inspired by Rust (detailed below). Discussing this
decision with ZDNet earlier
this month, Microsoft states C and C++ have "reached a wall [and] We can't
really do much more than we already have. It's becoming harder and harder and
more and more costly to address these issues over time." Discussing its
decision, Microsoft said: "We need to look out to the industry to see what
the best alternative to C++ is. And it turns out that language is a language
called Rust. We're looking to adopt that language to make our system software
at Microsoft more safe and reliable." Despite Edge being based on Google's
Chromium source code, Microsoft's proactive decision has the potential to give
Edge a head-start against Chrome, though Firefox remains years ahead here.
And this is a big deal. Memory management flaws are the most
highly prized vulnerability by hackers, coming first, fifth and seventh in the
top 10 list of dangerous vulnerabilities by Mitre, the non-profit organization which manages the
US government’s database of software vulnerabilities.
Firefox creator Mozilla developed Rust and integrated it into
Firefox over three years ago. Now Google states it is looking at Rust, along
with Swift, JavaScript, Kotlin and Java as programming languages to replace the
C and C++ code in Chrome. The company is also working on custom C++ libraries
after admitting that its strategy of sandboxing “has reached its maximum benefits
when taking performance into account.”
It is to Google’s credit that it is now looking to address the
memory unsafety problem at the heart of Chrome and Chromium "by any and
all means necessary", but there is no timeline on how long this will take
or how it will be done with the company still weighing up its options. In the
meantime, for those looking for a ready-made replacement, Firefox looks like a
good bet.
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