Comodo Dragon (web browser)

Comodo Dragon

Comodo Dragon 14.1.1 on Windows 7
Developer(s)	Comodo Group
Stable release	15.0.3 (based on Chromium 15.0.874.102) / October 2011, 28; 23 days ago (28-10-2011)
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Engine	WebKit
Development status	Active
Type	Web browser
License	Freeware
Website	comodo.com

Comodo Dragon is a freeware web browser implementation of Chromium, and is produced by Internet security firm Comodo Group. Sporting a similar interface to Google Chrome, Dragon eliminates Chrome's usage tracking and some other potentially privacy-compromising features, and provides additional security measures, such as indicating the authenticity and relative strength of a website's SSL certificate.^[1]

Differences from Chrome

See also: Google Chrome usage tracking

• Dragon includes checks on the SSL certificates of secure websites, and informs users if a site's certificate may be of insufficient strength.
• Dragon includes an on-demand Comodo Site Inspector, designed to determine if a site hosts malicious code.
• Dragon also offers the opportunity, during installation, to configure the user's computer to access Comodo's own DNS servers instead of the user's ISP DNS servers.
• Instead of Google's Updater, Comodo 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:^[2]

• RLZ identifier, an encoded string sent together with all queries to Google^[3] or once every 24 hours.
• Does not access Google search on startup for users with Google as default search^[4][5]
• A unique ID ("clientID") for identifying the user in logs.
• A timestamp of when the browser was installed.
• Google-hosted error pages when a server is not present
• Automatic address bar search suggestions.
• Bug tracking system, sending information about crashes or errors.

See also

• Google Chrome
• Comparison of web browsers

References

1. ^ Comodo Dragon, Comodo Group, Inc.
2. ^ A partial list of Dragon's differences vs. Chrome
3. ^ "Google Chrome, Chromium, and Google". http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google-chrome-chromium-and-google.html. Retrieved 28 January 2010.  See Which Google Domain
4. ^ "View of /trunk/src/chrome/browser/google/google_url_tracker.cc". http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/google/google_url_tracker.cc?annotate=16699#l31. Retrieved 15 November 2010.  Source code comment on line 31
5. ^ "Google Chrome, Chromium, and Google". http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google-chrome-chromium-and-google.html. Retrieved 28 January 2010.  See Which Google Domain

External links

• Official website