Comodo Dragon Review

Comodo which is one of the most well known antivirus, firewall providers has had a browser known as Comodo Dragon. Comodo claims that there browser is more secure and more private then that of Google Chrome. Now from my test it would be hard to tell because I can't tell what it is that they have done to claim to be more secure. But as far as my review goes Comodo might want to get rid of that claim.

As you can see in the video above there is no real difference since it is still using the chromium technology to create the browser. However the one thing that you will notice is the built in Comodo Web Inspector. This little tool should in theory prevent you from going to infected sites. The sad thing is there is no sign of that being true because it does not scan the items before you click them. Now this may still protect you but there are plenty of other tools that scan them BEFORE you go to the malicious site.

Protection Rating

This is hard for me to judge because in order for me to do that I would need to compare this to the other tools and since I don't know how often they scan sites and how many daily. However as far as site scanning this thing has done poorly because this browser does not alert you BEFORE you head to the site. The worst thing is that if you want to use that web inspector plugin you have to download the browser because they don't want to put it on the chrome web store. This could be a poor way to move people to your product, but it is not working so far.

Functionality    7

Now this is a 7/10 for Chromium based browsers. This browser as you can see makes it to were I don't have my little settings tab up there, and I rely on the developer tools a lot. They may be moved, or they hid it so that no one can mess with their extension. Not to mention that it looks different from the traditional browser, and I really don't like some of the things that they have done to it.

Privacy?

This is something that I cant prove again they can claim to be more private but how do you know that? You don't they could be collecting the information if they wanted to and you could not do anything about it. So there main thing again is thrown out because we can't prove that. Unlike the protection module which can be easily replaced with better tools this privacy idea has no real replacement because you can't prove what the company does with the information.

Ruling- Don't Use

You don't need some stupid browser like this when you can get better tools for Google Chrome. Yes they claim this, and that but the issue lies that they need to prevent malware before you go to the site not when you have clicked on it.  This is the one thing that many antivirus companies need to understand, and many of them are adjusting. Such as Avast, Ad Aware, AVG, Norton, but not Comodo.