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by chc4 670 days ago
Chrome has the most vulnerabilities because it's the largest browser by market share by a mile, and so has the greatest number of eyes on it. You also can't extrapolate "it was never really secure" from that: practically all software has bugs, especially multi-million line codebases like Chrome. Relative to the average C++ program Chrome is exceedingly secure, and likewise Chrome has been constantly on the cutting edge of introducing new security mitigations. "Is it secure" is not a binary property.
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It can be a binary property if you define security as a proof of absence of runtime errors which is possible to achieve today.
This isn’t really possible to achieve.
It's possible. You can prove absence of runtime errors with Ada/SPARK (which is using theorem provers).