Comodo Dragon Review | The Secured Browser on Chromium

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Comodo Dragon is a web browser, built by the renowned security vendor Comodo around the open Source Chromium technology. Comodo is greatly known the world over for one of the most popular Firewall Technolgies and well-regarded in the security field.

With Comodo Dragon, they have tried to combine their expertise in the field of Internet and PC Security with the hot field of web browser.

It claims to be a safer browser than all the modern day browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera etc.

The Dragon encompasses all of the best features of Chrome. It includes an important feature every user needs to use the Internet in total safety today. – Strong security and privacy.

Features of Comodo Dragon

Comodo Dragon claims to

Has privacy enhancements that surpass those in Chromium’s technology
Has Domain Validation technology that identifies and segregates superior SSL certificates from inferior ones
Stops cookies and other Web spies
Prevents all Browser download tracking to ensure your privacy

The website down’t detail much about exactly what features are added which support their claim of added security to Comodo Dragon. But Katharine Hadow, in her review of Comodo Dragon, gives a few security features, which adds to the security of a user using Comodo Dragon.

If Comodo Dragon encounters a Domain-only certificate, it warns the user that the website may not be reliable. Domain-only certificates are available to any webmaster at low cost and with no verification, providing no guarantee of authentication.
Comodo Dragon does not transmit information about a browsing session to a remote server. Such a transmission exposes information about where the user has been on the Internet.
Comodo Dragon eliminates a potential threat: that attackers could find vulnerabilities by looking for the software errors that the browser was compiling to report to a remote server. Comodo Dragon neither tracks nor reports errors
Comodo Dragon protects Internet users from inadvertently exposing information about themselves, enhancing online security.

They are useful features.

But, Why I Will Avoid Using Comodo Dragon

Despite these useful features and security enhancements, I would still believe that security update is a very important factor behind the security of a web browser. With a vast pool of resources and information available, browsers like Google Chrome and Firefox, are in a much better position to detect and counter a potential vulnerability as soon as it is exposed. Howsoever efficient Comodo is, they cannot match the huge resources and efforts, Google can put in to immediately detect and plug-in a security hole in its browser through security update.

That is the reason precisely, I had given a miss to ChromePlus in my ChromePlus Review, which also had shown inclusion of great features to Chrome.

What do you Think. Let us know in the comments.

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11 Comments on “Comodo Dragon Review | The Secured Browser on Chromium”

Rajesh wrote on 15 March, 2010, 20:14
I still think that IE8 is most secured browser. anyway, will tryout comodo dragon browser
Arne wrote on 19 March, 2010, 15:07
This browser is better than both firefox and IE8
Andrew wrote on 5 April, 2010, 2:35
“I still think that IE8 is most secured browser.”
ROFL! It’s the most insecure browser, next to IE6.
Barbra wrote on 12 April, 2010, 1:46
This is a very, very nice browser!
I use the Comodo Internet Security Suite and the registry cleaner by Comodo.
This browser was a nice surprise for me. I LOVE IT!
Can’t wait to see themes for the browser.
ot stupid wrote on 31 May, 2010, 16:11
Without the ability to BLOCK ADS (those utterly worthless attention grabbers) I won’t use it. I don’t CARE if they get PAID for supposedly having them magically appear, I just don’t want to SEE them
iluvcomputers wrote on 11 June, 2010, 0:31
“I think IE8 is most secured browser”
ROFLOL IE is the worst browser ever. It has more security problems in it than a slice of swiss cheese.
I give this browser top marks.
HarleyHerbert wrote on 10 July, 2010, 9:00
For now, I think I’ll stick to Firefox. This browser does have the potential to do well, if Comodo put more time, thought, development and resources into it. If they improve it, then I might consider using it. Thanks for the review, it was very useful.
steve wrote on 19 July, 2010, 15:38
IE8 the most secure browser ! Do you get paid from microsoft to spread that nonsense ? If not you should go to shrink ! Very good browser is opera, it would be the best if they were integrating some sandbox technology that is only important feature that i miss in opera and they do not track back the user on internet like google crome, but chrome has an important security future integrated that is calling sandbox technology and it is not being craked or hacked yet so that malicius code can not afect the os and cripled them ! The lack of secure environment in win is obvius so i will run win only in secure environment in XEN and run my favorite soft app even without protection in secure maner, and not being afreid eny more that win will crash eny more if so, then simpy restart it and up you go ! Dump the win becose of major lack of security, if you need it run it in virtual environment !
Dirk wrote on 31 July, 2010, 15:32
We have the latest Dragon installed and are quite happy, it plays nice with sandboxie and that’s all that counts:)