firefox still rulez

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hey newbies.have a look

mozilla.org

ie is and will always be non-secure.

did i mention firefox is free and does not have bug or
security patches every other week.
 
hey newbies.have a look said:
mozilla.org

ie is and will always be non-secure.

did i mention firefox is free and does not have bug or
security patches every other week.
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Just go the FF forums and see the pain of it all :-)

FF doesnt work with a ton of web sites.

Bill
 
Just read on Techweb some new security holes in Firefox. More and more are
popping up each day. As long as you configure your PC and firewalls
correctly, IE is safe as any other browser.

Jeff
 
Jeffrey--

Security vulnerabilities in IE vs. Firefox:


1) Security vulnerability in Firefox has been relatively rare cf. with IE.
We're talking bellshaped curve of security flaws in IE in Windows vs. a rare
and not even ocassional security vulnerability.
2) Second, the security vulnerabilities occur when these browsers run in
Windows, not in a unix based OS.
Panther>Tiger OS 10+ would be some of those.
3) To quote a poster on Ali Alvi's Weblog (from the IE Team at MSFT) "The
difference is that even if the Mozilla Foundation never fixes the issue, the
issue can legally still be fixed. The same cannot be said of non-open
software. The issue is also generally fixed soon after it is reported or has
already been fixed by the time it is reported if it goes through
(e-mail address removed). There are many cases where a security issue is found
in IE, but it is not fixed until significantly later..."--Brant Gurganus

Chad Harris
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Hello,

did i mention firefox is free and does not have bug or
security patches every other week.
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The lack of patches does not necessarily mean that Firefox is free of bugs
and security vulnerabilities. In fact, Firefox is steadily accumulating
known bugs, whilst IE gets updated every month.

http://secunia.com/product/4227/

The reason why I currently prefer IE is, that it is the fastest browser for
Windows, both regarding start up times and browsing experience.

What is currently better in FF is (W3C) standard compliance and the UI is
admittedly more up-to-date. But at least for the latter I can provide remedy
in form of a new address bar plug-in for IE. I am going to realease a new
version soon with even more handy new features like Flash Blocker, Find As
You Type and Google's Browse By Name support.

Stay tuned!

Viktor
http://www.quero.at/
 
Bill said:
Just go the FF forums and see the pain of it all :-)

FF doesnt work with a ton of web sites.
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First, it is more accurate to say that some websites don't work with FF:
too many designers build sites in blissful ignorance of the standards,
caring only that their sites work with one particular browser, IE.

Second, I myself use FF as my main browser, and it is VERY rare for me
to have to go to IE to access a site. Indeed, I mainly have to use IE
to access portions of Microsoft's site, including Windows update.
 
IE Development Team Has to Rethink What They're Offering And Fast

I find Viktor's comments on speed and IE in a Windows OS intriguing. I
have found without a doubt on different machines with different memory
configurations and amounts of RAM that Firefox is so much faster than IE in
loading pages and so much more efficient in handling CPU clock time for the
same amount of pages open it's no contest as to page loading and CPU
efficiency.

Firefox would have to have a quantum leap of exploits discovered to equal IE
and that aside, MSFT's IE development team including all the MSDN bloggers
have dragged their feet in innovations for IE for the last several years,
long predating the launch of Windows XP on October 25, 2001. You guys need
to get cracking for Longhorn since the first Beta is set to release in a
very few months.

If one looks at the extensions available in Firefox, and checks out a book
like the O'Reilly Hacks book on it soon to be in stores,
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/firefoxhks/, does some reading on forums to
optimize FF, keep up with the new versions, and forums for optimizing
Firefox.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=42

The people who run these groups might consider starting a Firefox group as a
service to everyone, and as an incentive to the IE development teams at
Redmond to get out of the mud and develop features comparable to the rich,
robust functionality (to use an often used Redmonite term) of Firefox
because Firefox ain't standin' still and IE seems to be.

It isn't enough to tweak security a little ala SP2 for the IE team. Firefox
is going to multiply and become more than a cult following. I rarely have to
change browsers when I'm using it.

Chad Harris
 
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