Comment by oldmanhorton

I didn’t know this, but there are also security downsides to being ahead of chrome — namely, all chrome releases take dependencies on “known good” v8 release versions which have at least passed normal tests and minimal fuzzing, but also v8 releases go through much more public review and fuzzing by the time they reach chrome stable channel. I expect if you want to be as secure as possible, you’d want to stay aligned with “whatever v8 is in chrome stable.”