Secure browsers other than firefox.

**pinballwizard** · March 13th, 2013

Lynx.

**Soul-Sing** · March 13th, 2013

Originally Posted by pinballwizard

Lynx.

geek

**aysiu** · March 13th, 2013

I don't remember the exact procedure, but I believe you can freeze package versions, so you don't have to auto-update Firefox, even if you keep your other Ubuntu packages up to date.

**coldraven** · March 13th, 2013

No problems here!
I have 10 add-ons including the ones you listed and none complained throughout the recent round of updates.
This is on Ubuntu 12.10 with Firefox 19.02

**MadmanRB** · March 13th, 2013

Originally Posted by JLeon85

What's wrong with Chrome? I know it's really insecure on Windows, but it seems fine on Linux.

Source?

**mr john** · March 13th, 2013

Source?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chrome+insecure+windows

**JLeon85** · March 13th, 2013

Originally Posted by MadmanRB

Source?

My own experience. When I was using it on Windows I would find extensions installed that I didn't want and hadn't requested. Then deleting them would require uninstalling whatever malware it was linked to in the task manager. I'm not aware of any such thing ever occurring on Linux.

**aysiu** · March 13th, 2013

Originally Posted by mr john

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chrome+insecure+windows

That's actually not helpful.

**mastablasta** · March 14th, 2013

Originally Posted by aysiu

I don't remember the exact procedure, but I believe you can freeze package versions, so you don't have to auto-update Firefox, even if you keep your other Ubuntu packages up to date.

in synaptic you can lock packages to their versions

lynx does seem a good choice to avoid those scripts and java and flash.... not sure how secure it really is. it definatelly wasn't updated in a while.