What web browser is best?

Thanks i cannot do it in Vivaldi or the new Opera.

 

A really long TLDR, but (if I read it correctly) it says osx safari has the best security.

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-security-updates/

 

Not quite. Boiled down, it basically says that Safari is the best of the WebKit-based browsers via security updates, not the best browser period. Apple regularly updates their version of WebKit, whereas the mostly-volunteer updates for the FOSS implementations aren't as regular (surprise, surprise). It also doesn't help that on the Linux distros, WebKit seems to be suffering from fragmentation issues that tend to be common for a variety of Linux software projects.

 

That all said, it would be interesting to see if there's an article from a security expert comparing the current versions of Apple's WebKit, Google's Blink, and Mozilla's Gecko. My guesses (without looking anything up, since I'm about to head to bed) would be that Apple's stepping up their game due to Safari's infamous security issues in the past, Google would be doing a pretty good job with Blink, and Mozilla might be doing okay but is more concerned with trying to keep Firefox relevant and might be lacking in the security area by some degree. Just an uneducated guess, though.

 

The reason for the latest step-up in incompatible websites was 12's lack of support for elliptic curve cryptography (ECDHE/ECDSA). The popularity of these schemes implemented without a fallback option meant a lot of sites were inaccessible with 12.

There's some good news, though:

Surprise: Opera 12.18 has been released (<- some interesting comments, too)

Tested it and there were no issues, even as an update over a stand-alone usb installation:

Spoiler: Opera v12.18 - about

Spoiler: Opera v12.18 - security protocols

Still ... due to rampant browser discrimination it remains useful to bypass the most basic sniffing technique:

Spoiler: Opera v12.18 - user agent

Now just have to make Opera Link function again. Primarily for the bookmarks synchronisation feature though, so was thinking about a simple Google sheets copy/paste thing or even via an automated script, since the bookmarks.adr file is plain text anyway. Started by calculating back the 'CREATED=***' and 'VISITED=***' bookmark timestamps; these are the number of seconds passed since 1970-01-01. This is necessary in order to keep track of deleted bookmarks; ' date created' < ' date last synchronisation' + ' url not in adr-to-sync-with' = ' remove bookmark'.