Windows 10: Microsoft Edge beats Chrome and Firefox in new security report

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Download report: NSS Labs Research Library - Products

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Microsoft Edge Sound Problem

The following quote from Microsoft only makes me laugh,

"We're committed to providing customers with a personalized web experience, which is why bringing extensions to Microsoft Edge continues to be a high priority. We’re actively working to develop a secure extension model to make the safest and most reliable
browser for our customers, and look forward to sharing more in a future Windows 10 update in 2016."

And they advertise that Microsoft Edge can beat Chrome and Firefox, really a joke when they released Windows 10 with a very incomplete browser, does Microsoft coders need help ?

Amazing how Microsoft many times try to "blind" us with things like this one.

Another fantastic browser from Microsoft (Not)

 

Google+ Hangout app not loading in Windows 10

Already reported at Google Groupes. Seems to be fixed in the developer channel of Chrome but not yet pushed to the consumer version. As for Firefox support, I guess it will
come after Chrome.

Microsoft Edge does not support plugins yet.

 

This could be why opening pages using Edge whilst browsing takes longer, than IE or Chrome.
This would allow time to do extra security checks.

 

Does the report say why? Just curious.

 

Socially Engineered Malware and Phishing depend on the user, or victim getting duped into revealing information that is unsafe, or downloading unsafe software that masquerades as something else. User awareness and safe browsing practices are still the number one defence against attacks of these kind, and however good the browser's defenses are, if the browser takes a day to register a site as being unsafe, or actively distributing malware or phishing emails etc., many naive or unschooled users may be caught up in these exploitation scams.

In this way, relying on browsers for protection, is unsafe, and tests of levels of browser protection are somewhat meaningless, and provide a false sense of security.

These tests have much to do with how quickly the browser is able to block these sites from the first encounter or "zero hour" - It is not so much a test of the browser, but of Microsoft's SmartScreen filter compared with the Google Safe Browsing API.

SmartScreen scores well with upwards of 98% blocking, Google levels out at about 85%.

The actual methodology of the testing process by NSS is still vague, IMO: https://www.nsslabs.com/linkservid/4...124BD6058D31A/

Defence against Phishing emails should generally involve Email clients rather than browsers, as most webmail clients (accessed via a browser) have their own built-in anti-malware/spam and undesirable source address filters.

If the stats contained real-world data consisting of numbers of users actually exploited for each browser, the results may have some significance, as it is, as already noted, the test results have very little significance, and may increase confidence, but not security.