Comodo Dragon Internet Browser

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I am not a fan of Comodo but I just came across this piece of software and I tried it out.

The results were awesome…but I don’t like to believe that any Comodo products as awesome…

Copied from Comodo forum:

Comodo Dragon Alpha is now available for download from the following link:
http://download.comodo.com/dragon/DragonSetup.exe

COMODO Dragon Release Notes:
Comodo Dragon internet browser is based on the source code of Google Chrome browser but has a number of improvements, which includes fixes some privacy and security improvements.

ADDED Certificate Domain Validation checking warning
Comodo Dragon uses advanced domain validation technology originally developed in Comodo Verification Engine. It performs additional analysis of a domain’s SSL certificate to warn about those that been issued with Domain Only Validation.

FIXED Client identification number privacy issue.
Comodo Dragon fixes this privacy issues, which exists in Chrome browser. Chrome creates an ID for each client (user). This security gap theoretically can be used to identify a user. This ID has been removed.

REMOVED RLZ-Tracking capability.
RLZ-Tracking is a Chrome’s feature which informs Google about when and where the browser has been downloaded. This capability has been removed in Dragon. This has been done to protect user privacy

COMODO’s traditional product update technology is used.
Dragon uses COMODO’s own installer and update technology. Chrome, on the other hand, checks for updates and makes update via Google Updater, legality of which was put under question by Red Bend Software. Google Updater was entirely eliminated in Dragon

REMOVED error reporting mechanism.
Error reporting is used by Google to find and remove problems in their software however the information, which is sent to Google, includes some data about the computer’s software. In case it this information is intercepted by an attacker, it can be used to reveal vulnerabilities in the computer’s security system. COMODO Dragon has eliminated this mechanism is order not to compromise user’s security and privacy.

REMOVED installation time-tracking.
COMODO’s installation technology doesn’t use and store information about when the software was installed and updated, all actions are based only on your current version number, whereas Chrome installation stores detailed (up to the second) information about software installation time

ADDED smart software removal
During software remove Dragon asks user whether he or she wants to keep user preferences data (home page, search engine customizing, etc) and leaves or removes user profile based on his or her choice. This is done for user’s convenience. Leaving user’s profile on your computer is recommended if you are going to return to using Dragon in future

EXCLUDED remote error pages usage
Dragon uses locally stored error messages (such as “Page not found”), whereas Chrome in its default configuration uses server-stored error messages. In Dragon information about your network input errors is limited to your browser instead of being sent to Google’s remote server.

Or is it just a copy of SRWare Iron?

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Chromium is OpenSource, Comodo’s version doesn’t have to be a copy of anything…anyway, I already started a thread here about “Dragon” :wink:

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OMG! Did u start a thread already about Comodo browser? :-[

I was searching for it and couldn’t find it

Where is it?

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that was more than two weeks ago I think, may be more, I have no idea…I can’t find it either ??? doesn’t matter, I just mentioned in it I found it sooooooooo… funny Comodo was in the browser business as well now ::slight_smile: :smiley:

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I’m alpha testing Comodo Dragon (aka CD) on three systems for several weeks (previously posted HERE) and it is awesome, though still basically undeveloped. CD has nothing to do with SRWare Iron.

@Logos: Your post/thread is HERE.

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no, that’s a CTM related thread

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This isn’t the same reference? :o

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I was just thinking!

Now there are

Google Chrome
SRware
Chrome Plus
Chromium
Comodo Dragon

It would be a inner competition!

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They are all decent browsers, so it would come down to user choice. :slight_smile:

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I see only one browser there, and it’s called Chromium, OSS as you may (not?) know :smiley:

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Of course everyone up there is based on Chromium but still everyone is different from each other.

For example

SRWare Iron is a release of Chromium software that explicitly disables the collection and transmission of usage information and full User agent control

Under Chrome Plus, its process can be configured where to run process per site instance, single process, process per tab or process per site

The features are very different.

Of course its all based on Chromium.

Just like Firefox is based on Gecko

Gecko-based browsers :

* Mozilla Application Suite (discontinued)

    * Beonex Communicator (fork, based on Mozilla Application Suite) (discontinued)
    * Netscape (Netscape 6 to 7, based on Mozilla) (discontinued)
    * SeaMonkey (successor to Mozilla Application Suite)
    * Classilla (an updated fork of the Suite to Mac OS 9)

* Yahoo! Browser (or partnership browsers eg. "AT&T Yahoo! Browser"; "Verizon Yahoo! Browser"; "BT Yahoo! Browser" etc.)
* Galeon, GNOME's old default browser (discontinued)
* K-Meleon for Windows

    * K-Ninja for Windows (based on K-Meleon; discontinued)
    * K-MeleonCCF ME for Windows (based on K-Meleon core, mostly written in Lua)

* Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird and Phoenix)

    * Netscape Browser 8 to Netscape Navigator 9 (discontinued)
    * AT&T Pogo (based on Firefox, discontinued)
    * Madfox (based on Firefox 1.0.x) (discontinued)
    * Swiftfox (processor-optimised builds based on Firefox)
    * Flock (based on Firefox)
    * XeroBank Browser (formerly Torpark), portable browser for anonymous browsing, originally based on Firefox
    * Iceweasel, Debian's Firefox rebrand
    * Swiftweasel (processor-optimised builds based on Iceweasel)
    * GNU IceCat, GNU's free fork of Firefox

* DocZilla, an SGML browser (discontinued)
* Camino for Mac OS X (formerly Chimera)
* Conkeror, character- and keyboard driven browser, possibly targeted at people with disabilities
* Minimo (for mobile, discontinued)
* Fennec (for mobile)
* Skyfire (for mobile)

Does that mean all are same? No

This also applies with those based on Chromium

WebKit-based browsers

* ABrowse
* Arora
* Web Browser for Android (mobile device platform)
* BOLT browser
* Google Chrome
* Epiphany (web browser)
* iCab (version 4 uses WebKit; earlier versions used its own rendering engine)
* Iris Browser
* Midori
* OmniWeb
* rekonq
* Safari
* Shiira
* Sputnik for MorphOS (based on S60 WebCore)
* SRWare Iron
* Stainless
* TeaShark
* Uzbl
* Web Browser for S60 (for mobile)
* WebOS, used in the Palm Pre mobile

:slight_smile:

What I am trying to say is this, even thought the browsers are based on Chromium, they are very different from each other

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I concur! :slight_smile:

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What I am trying to say is this, even thought the browsers are based on Chromium, they are very different from each other
And as Logos pointed out, it still comes down to users choice. :)
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Or was it Jahn that pointed that out? :smiley:

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Yes. It comes down to users choice.

Everything in this world comes down to users choice.

Whether it be a browser or a cell phone

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Have you seen this, Chris?

[quote="Comodo_Shane post:15, topic:625753"] Hi Guys,

The next release is planned for Tuesday 12th Jan.

Shane.
[/quote]

http://forums.comodo.com/empty-t49602.0.html (log-in required)

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Sounds like Comodo is joining the “Patch Tuesday” parade… ;D

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@ Jah @ Bob

I saw it.

It is Tuesday. Here it is 2.10 pm. Still I can’t find the new version.

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Check again, Chris. I’m d/l now (on dial-up at this location :().

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Got it now.

Comodo Dragon Beta1 ver 0.9.0.22

Comodo Dragon beta is now available for download from the following link:
http://download.comodo.com/dragon/DragonSetup.exe

New in this version:

IMPROVED: Chromium 3 source code is used as basis for Dragon
IMPROVED: DVCheck severity reduced. It’s a warning now

FIXED: Back button
FIXED: Issue with ‘[at]’ symbol

ADDED: Search engines importing from Opera