Comodo Dragon is a

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. It is based on

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and is produced by

Comodo Group Xcitium, formerly known as Comodo Security Solutions, Inc., is a cybersecurity company headquartered in Bloomfield, New Jersey in the United States. History The company was founded in 1998 in the United Kingdom by Melih Abdulhayoğlu. The com ...

. Sporting a similar interface to

Google Chrome Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, built with free software components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions were later released for Linux, macOS ...

, 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

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measures, such as indicating the authenticity and relative strength of a website's

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(SSL) certificate.

Features

Upon installation, Comodo Dragon offers the opportunity to configure either the Comodo Dragon or the user's entire

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to use Comodo's own

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servers instead of the user's

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. Comodo Dragon performs additional checks on the SSL

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s of secure

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s, 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

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, Comodo Dragon features its own built-in updater. If Dragon is

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, users are given the option of keeping Dragon's

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and

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files or deleting them. In addition, the following

features are removed or disabled in Dragon: * Google user tracking * Automatic access to

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on startup for users with Google as default search engine *

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-hosted error pages when a server is not present * Automatic

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search suggestions * Bug tracking system, which sends information about crashes or errors * Built-in

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viewer and

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which is sandboxed *

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(NaCl) support *

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codec *

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which blocks malicious and

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sites *

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, and Slides which open various document and spreadsheet formats *

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, 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. Comodo subsequently claimed the problems were fixed.

Comodo license and tracking

Comodo tracks each user's time spent using the browser, its operating system, and browser inquiries about certificate revocation, which reveal the sites visited. Users can opt whether they also track activity and use it in more detail than that. Comodo and its partners use cookies and Google Analytics. "Comodo may disclose data to its affiliates and business partners who have established similar privacy standards." Their privacy statement says that only in California is the IP address considered personal information. Comodo creates log files which track users, identifiable by cookie or browser features (and IP address outside California): "Comodo uses log files non-personally identifiable information to ... track movements throughout the site ... and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use." The browser is supported by ads which "relate to the content of the information as part of the Product or queries made through the Product." They include many other software products, each with its own license. The license has common terms about complying with subpoenas and interception orders, against reverse engineering, copying and sub-licensing, and disclaiming warranties and liability. The license also requires disputes to be settled by arbitration in New Jersey. Users must give accurate registration information, and pay Comodo's costs " that, directly or indirectly, are based on your breach of this agreement, the information provided by you, or your infringement on the rights of a third party."

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Companies' terms of service

Features

Security issues

Comodo license and tracking

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