Google Chrome Most Unsafe Browser In 2022 With 303 Vulnerabilities.

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Google Chrome might be the most popular browser in the world, but it's also the most unsafe. A report published by Atlas VPN reveals that 303 vulnerabilities were discovered for Chrome in just 2022 alone. To date, this brings the total number of vulnerabilities discovered for Chrome to 3,159.

Google Chrome is the only browser with new vulnerabilities in the five days in October. Recent ones include CVE-2022-3318, CVE-2022-3314, CVE-2022-3311, CVE-2022-3309, and CVE-2022-3307.

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Browsers Vulnerabilities

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Mozilla's Firefox

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Microsoft Edge

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Safari

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Opera

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