> The fuss made here illustrates it: 0-days are rare enough that "rather often" is a serious mischaracterisation.
A RCE in a browser is literally the worst possible case and Firefox had multiple of them, most trivially exploitable with JavaScript. This simply doesn't happen with Chrome.
> Chromium means you miss features that Chrome has (H264, Netflix, ...)
Google made an effort to open-source everything, including their PDFium PDF reader.
The only remaining bits are the Pepper flash player and the Encrypted Media Extensions. Both are closed source in Firefox as well. You can use them with Chromium just fine and both are sandboxed. They cannot be distributed with Chromium for licensing reasons, but nothing prevents you from downloading the Chrome package and extracting those two files. Many Linux distros have scripts which automate this.
I specifically pointed out H264 support (and you ignored it) because it's an annoyance when using Chromium. And yes, that's due to licensing reasons as well.
A RCE in a browser is literally the worst possible case and Firefox had multiple of them, most trivially exploitable with JavaScript. This simply doesn't happen with Chrome.
> Chromium means you miss features that Chrome has (H264, Netflix, ...)
Google made an effort to open-source everything, including their PDFium PDF reader.
The only remaining bits are the Pepper flash player and the Encrypted Media Extensions. Both are closed source in Firefox as well. You can use them with Chromium just fine and both are sandboxed. They cannot be distributed with Chromium for licensing reasons, but nothing prevents you from downloading the Chrome package and extracting those two files. Many Linux distros have scripts which automate this.