Comodo Dragon
web browser based on the Chromium web browser
Comodo Dragon is a discontinued freeware web browser based on Chromium and produced by Comodo Group. Sporting a similar interface to Google Chrome, Dragon does not implement Chrome's user tracking and some other potentially privacy-compromising features, replacing them with its own user tracking implementations, and provides additional security measures, such as indicating the authenticity and relative strength of a website's Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.
Features
Upon installation, Comodo Dragon offers the opportunity to configure either the Comodo Dragon 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 digital certificates of secure websites, and informs users if a site's certificate may be of insufficient strength. It includes an on-demand site inspector 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:
Google user tracking
Automatic access to Google Search on startup for users with Google as default search engine
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 Docs, Sheets, and Slides which open various document and spreadsheet formats
Google Translate, which automatically translates webpages in foreign languages
Security issues
A Google engineer publicly disclosed a serious security vulnerability in Comodo Dragon after Comodo failed to respond to the issue within the 90 days Google provides software vendors. The advisory warns users who install Comodo Dragon that Dragon replaces their default browser, hijacks DNS settings, and disables the same-origin policy, which exposes users by allowing malicious websites to access private data.
Comodo's first attempt to patch the issue was shown to be ineffective.
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