Safari vs brave on mac, which has better security?

I would usually choose Brave but it isn’t on the Mac app store, therefore not required to be sandboxed, while Safari is.

Considering everything, which one to choose for mac?

The general consensus among security researchers seems to be that chromium-based browsers are more secure. Both browsers offer a lot of great features, some that the other doesn’t offer, but I think overall brave likely has Safari beat in terms of security. Not that either one is necessarily insecure.

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Yeah im aware that chromium is considered the best overall. But asking for macOS only, where the added bonus of Safari being sandboxed by the system itself can come into consideration?

Well Brave does use the system sandboxing it’s just not for absolutely everything. It doesn’t use the “App Sandbox” per se but if you check in activity monitor most of the processes are sandboxed.

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Im also thinking of this: Brave could get compromised in the future or sth, and since it isn’t required to be sandboxed like Safari is, it could stop using the sandbox. How realistic of a threat is this?

Do you think I should stick to Brave on mac even after taking into account these things?

I guess it’s possible but doesn’t seem likely. It would be hard for an attacker to push out a malicious update that disables the sandboxing without getting caught I would think.

Yes.

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