Posted on 10/19/2009 1:15:38 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
“Mozilla Blocks Add-ons from Microsoft Because of Vulernability”
Heh... eye ron ic... ;’)
When I use a browser on a Wintel machine, and have a choice, I’ll take Firefox every single time. :’) The machine I use at work allowed me to install iTunes the other day, and my coworker couldn’t do the same with the file I’d downloaded; I’m now tempted to install Firefox as well.
Firefox is used by about 52% of visitors to my web site (aimed at amateur radio / electronics) and IE about 45% according to last week’s statistics.
Jack
What’s the benefit of Mozilla? I just don’t see it. I have to routinely fix a pc I don’t own and Mozilla drives me batty with a whole slew of broken plugins. I want to wipe out the whole thing.
I use IE, and I’m quite happy with how it’s progressed over the years. No stability issues.
MS put the add-on in a security update to the .net framework.
I uninstalled it when I found out about it. MS didn’t make it easy to get rid of.
Firefox is safer, in that it is not exposed to nearly as many exploits as IE. It also has been in advance of IE in terms of introducing useful features, such as tabbed browsing, although IE now has some of Firefox’s features.
I’ve not had a problem with Firefox plug-ins, and I’ve used it since version 1.5 or so. I also use Thunderbird as my E-mail program and find it superior to Outlook, let alone Outlook Express.
Jack
I detested Firefox and it’s monthy re-installs, but I haven’t tried it in years. Mozilla did the right thing here.
I haven’t gotton any warnings and I use FF 99% of the time.
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