Google has now confirmed no fewer than eight zero-day vulnerabilities affecting the Chrome browser this year. Is it time to change your browser?
As the year draws ever closer to its end, the zero-day vulnerabilities just keep on coming. Google has now confirmed the eighth such zero-day vulnerability, for which a known exploit has been reported, to affect the Chrome browser.
This begs the inevitable question: Is it time to change to something else? The answer, as always, is complicated. The eighth zero-day Chrome browser vulnerability, a security flaw that already has a known exploit available and has been observed in the wild before the vendor is aware of it, has been confirmed by Google. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2025-14174 exists in the wild,” Srinivas Sista of the Chrome team said in a This is a particularly nasty zero-day, not that any can be described as warm and cuddly, as it is thought to be of the spyware variety. Officially described as an “out of bounds memory access in ANGLE,” CVE-2025-14174 was actually discovered by the Apple Security Engineering and Architecture alongside Google’s Threat Analysis Group. Apple has since patched the issue with the unexpected December 12 release of iOS 26.2, asnot only to ensure that the security update has been downloaded but also to relaunch their browser to activate it and get the protection it brings.How secure is Google Chrome compared to other web browsers? How long is a piece of string? Seriously, if you are contemplating changing to a different web browser just because there have now been a total ofGoogle actually does a pretty darn good job of both detecting security vulnerabilities and patching them in a timely fashion. The Google Threat Analysis Group, perhaps best known for thewho uncover zero-days before attackers can exploit them, is one of the best in the business. Just because there are vulnerabilities, even those of the zero-day variety, does not mean a product is insecure. It’s how the vendor deals with them that is important. More often than not, Google gets it right. Not least, because it has more resources than most to throw at the security problem. Many of the alternative browsers you might contemplate switching to are actually built upon the same Chromium engine as, unsurprisingly, given the name, Chrome. They will therefore suffer from the same vulnerabilities, including zero-days, that impact Chrome. They might not get patched as quickly, though. Even if you choose a web browser that does not use Chromium under the hood, that doesn’t mean it will be vulnerability-free, far from it. There is no such thing as 100% secure, and anyone who suggests otherwise is a liar or in sales and marketing. Again, it’s how a vendor responds to security issues, and, indeed, the resources they have to uncover them in the first place, that matters. Do I use Chrome as my primary browser? Nope. But that’s not down to security thinking per se, rather my privacy perceptions and the fact that I run an Apple ecosystem as my daily work driver now. Safari for both iOS and macOS works for me, as it does for most Apple users, I imagine. So, sure, switch from Google Chrome — just don’t do it under the misapprehension that it will somehow make your browsing more secure. That is unlikely to be the case.
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