Hackers spent at least a year spying on Mozilla to discover Firefox security holes – and exploit them

[Georgi Guninski]

On Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 09:59:14PM -0700, Ryan Carboni wrote:
> No wonder firefox is seemingly more insecure lately.
> 
> Only choices now are chrome or a text-only browser.

https://thestack.com/security/2015/06/19/google-criticised-for-opaque-audio-listening-binary-in-debians-chromium-browser/

Yoshino Yoshihito said in the report ‘After upgrading chromium to 43, I
noticed that when it is running and immediately after the machine is
on-line it silently starts downloading “Chrome Hotword Shared Module”
extension, which contains a binary without source code,’