Comodo IceDragon is a discontinued
Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements curr ...
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based open source
web browser
A web browser, often shortened to browser, is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's scr ...
from the
Comodo Group
Xcitium (formerly Comodo Security Solutions Inc.) is a cybersecurity company, including Zero Trust cybersecurity, based in Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States. In 2022, the company rebranded as Xcitium.
History
The company was founded in 1 ...
, written for
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a Product lining, product line of Proprietary software, proprietary graphical user interface, graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft. It is grouped into families and subfamilies that cater to particular sec ...
.
Features
* Firefox-based: IceDragon 65 is based on the Firefox 65 codebase. It provides detection for Firefox hard-coded
plugin installations.
* SiteInspector: Comodo's SiteInspector
malware
Malware (a portmanteau of ''malicious software'')Tahir, R. (2018)A study on malware and malware detection techniques . ''International Journal of Education and Management Engineering'', ''8''(2), 20. is any software intentionally designed to caus ...
detection system is integrated into IceDragon. SiteInspector's link scanning feature checks whether a web page is malicious.
* SecureDNS service: IceDragon offers Comodo's Secure DNS Service to users as an alternative to using their
Internet Service Provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides a myriad of services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, no ...
. This is intended to produce faster page loads and safer browsing because SecureDNS references a real-time block list (RBL) of malicious websites.
See also
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Comodo Cybersecurity
Xcitium (formerly Comodo Security Solutions Inc.) is a cybersecurity company, including Zero Trust cybersecurity, based in Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States. In 2022, the company rebranded as Xcitium.
History
The company was founded in 19 ...
*
Comodo Dragon – based on
Chromium
Chromium is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is the first element in Group 6 element, group 6. It is a steely-grey, Luster (mineralogy), lustrous, hard, and brittle transition metal.
Chromium ...
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Google's Chrome, also from Comodo Group
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Comodo Internet Security
Comodo Internet Security (CIS) is developed and distributed by Comodo Group, a freemium Internet security suite that includes an antivirus program, personal firewall, sandbox, host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS) and website filter ...
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Comodo System Utilities Comodo System Utilities, also marketed as Comodo PC TuneUp, is a software suite by the Comodo Group, a software company known for Internet and network security software.
Overview
Comodo System Utilities combines three cleaning utilities: Registry ...
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Comodo Mobile Security
Comodo Mobile Security (CMS) is a mobile application provided free by the Comodo Group that protects Android devices against viruses, worms and scripts. It also features SMS and call blocking, a software and process manager, data and apps backup ...
References
External links
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Softpedia.com 3 January 2013
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Icedragon
Portable software
Web browsers based on Firefox
Windows web browsers
Discontinued web browsers