Open discussion: Brave: the good, the bad and the ugly

[yan]

2 days is actually quite short in the browser release time scale. Chromium does major upgrades every 6 weeks and clients only check for updates only about once a day IIRC. In fact according to https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php most Chrome users are still on Chrome 79 even though 80 is out. Furthermore, Chromium security issues are kept under embargo for 14 weeks after landing according to https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/security/faq.md#TOC-Can-you-please-un-hide-old-security-bugs-. So even in the worst case scenario, a security issue is not generally exploitable for 8 weeks after the fix is released. Brave will always update to the latest Chromium in less than 8 weeks - usually we update within a few days.