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.
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I still think that IE8 is most secured browser. anyway, will tryout comodo dragon browser
This browser is better than both firefox and IE8
“I still think that IE8 is most secured browser.”
ROFL! It’s the most insecure browser, next to IE6.
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.
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
“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.
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.
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 !
We have the latest Dragon installed and are quite happy, it plays nice with sandboxie and that’s all that counts:)
To all you IE deprecators… Security issues? All of them have some. Let’s be realistic: if a web browser were to be absolutely safe to use, why would we need anti-virus or firewall software? Nobody can claim that any browser in the market is 100% safe. It just doesn’t exist. The mere idea is ridiculous. As for speed, they are all fast enough. In my 28 years using computers I’ve tried ALL browsers that have come out. Internet Explorer is No. 1 in ease of use. All those attacks on Windows and Microsoft are just bad publicity for other software. If Windows & co. are so bad, why hasn’t anyone been able to come up with something better? Linux? It may be stable, but please! Open source OS can only be a source for compatibility problems. Even Linux developers have different versions of the thing. No, thanks. Back to the web browsers, as I said, I have tried them all. So I will try this one. If it’s half as good as the security software from COMODO, it should be good.
I have been using ChromePlus for over 2 years now and have always found it to be better than Google Chrome & Google’s Beta. However until recently with Google new Beta release and after reading this article. I am now 100% sure that I will be GOING BACK TO GOOGLE CHROME!!!
THANKS FOR THIS GREAT ARTICLE!!!
~ IM
This is a great browser. Just started using the latest version and installed some chrome extensions and it’s great that its working. Thanks a lot!
“I still think that IE8 is most secured browser.” You’ve gotta be kidding me, really.
Good browser, just don’t quite see the purpose to replace chrome with this one though. Same platform, but is not as snappy at loading pages as the equivalent Chrome stable channel. Got IE9, FF8, Dragon15, and Chrome 15 stable version……and hands down Chrome beats them all in sheer speed. IMHO
What’s Happening i am new to this, I stumbled upon this I have discovered It absolutely helpful and it has aided me out loads. I hope to give a contribution & assist other customers like its helped me. Great job.
Comodo stinks just like its cousin Chrome. Play Chess.com and with this browser not only it there NO Sound it totally freezes and you cannot move pieces! What a joke. Try OPERA and your better off!