Mail.Ru Group released the Atom browser to replace the failed Amigo

In July last year, Mail.Ru Group stopped developing and supporting the Amigo Internet browser, which over the several years of its existence had not gained popularity among users and became an object of ridicule. Then the company explained the decision to close Amigo by cooperation with unscrupulous partners who used “gray” schemes to promote the browser. Because of this, users have a negative attitude towards it.

“Mail.Ru Group considers the browser market niche to be promising and does not exclude the possibility that work in this direction will continue. With the development of new products, the promotion format will be fundamentally changed taking into account the experience gained by the company,” the company’s press service noted in the summer.

The forecast was justified - instead of the Amigo browser, Mail.Ru Group released a browser called Atom, a beta version of which is available to PC users running OS Windows, writes TJ .

"A lightweight, minimalistic interface combined with convenient import of settings from a previous browser will make the transition to Atom simple and fast. Atom retains only the most important and necessary functions, so that, regardless of whether you are new to the Internet or an experienced user, you can easily “We figured everything out and configured the browser the way you want,” says the description of the new browser.

Developers pay special attention to Atom security. Thus, the browser warns the user about unsafe sites, prevents phishing threats and the installation of malware, and also allows you to manage security settings for all sites at once and for each resource separately. Atom also allows you to open tabs in incognito mode without leaving the main window. In addition, the user can disable history recording for the entire browser. However, Atom will still collect “impersonal product metrics” for the company: you can refuse to issue these statistics at the installation stage.

According to the current Mail.Ru Group program for identifying vulnerabilities (bug bounty), for discovering “holes” in Atom, users can count on a bonus of up to 3 thousand US dollars. At the same time, the researcher who manages to find an RCE vulnerability in Atom (a computer vulnerability in which remote code execution occurs on a hacked computer) will receive a super prize of 1 million rubles (about 15 thousand dollars).