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by gruez 915 days ago
According to their github repo, it was last rebased with chromium version 105.0.5195.24, which was from August 2022. Using a 15 month old browser seems hilariously insecure.

https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src.next

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I use Kiwi, I take the risk for the ability to run my own extensions (though I use a two-fisted approach where I use Chrome for deep accounts). It's a shame it's not updated more often, it's an open source project I would support.
You are vulnerable to the webp exploit (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863)
Yes, but everyone else is vulnerable to not being able to run extensions. As mentioned, I just use it for news & general web site surfing, no accounts.
Mine states 120.0.6099.26, which was released a month ago, https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/11/chrome-beta-fo...
Your user agent string or the actual browser code? The former is notoriously just set to whatever makes websites happy. An easy way to test is see if a current feature actually works as expected e.g. https://jsfiddle.net/fxc9a8uc/1 "test1" should be green at the top right.
It's also possible that they updated the code but didn't push the changes to the repo, which I guess is better than running 15 month old code, but also is kinda suspicious because they're not honoring their commitment to open source.
I just tried this on Android. "test1" is green on Chrome 120 and Firefox 121, black on Kiwi 120.