An excellent vector for malware? What do you consider your level of technical knowledge? Do you understand that by keeping your web browsing in a separate kernel process, you’re actually insulating your operating system from infection? Firefox itself may crash or corrupt, but your operating system isn’t affected.
Firefox is designed to crash if an extension or addon corrupts to prevent your system from going on its knees due to resource overruns. If Firefox is continuously crashing, you’ve likely got a corrupt extension or addon.
You ever had an IE extension crash? What happened? Oh yeah, your ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM LOCKED UP! Firefox is designed by the GNU community and is leaps and bounds more secure and stable than most other commercial browsers out there unless you’re using Lynx, Mosaic, or some browser with absolutely zero extensions.
Understand that a MAJORITY of issues don’t come from the browsers but from addons like Java, Javascript, Flash, Shockwave, etc.
“What do you consider your level of technical knowledge?”
Good enough. I maintain my computers and a few others. The big issue is cleaning off other people’s FF if it’s not well maintained. It’s an enormous pain. Last time I had to do it, it was a day - but I finally broke it and repaired the massively corrupt installation.
Java took down the last computer I had fail on me. I’m trying to nip this one in the bud so that I won’t see similar problems.
“Do you understand that by keeping your web browsing in a separate kernel process, you’re actually insulating your operating system from infection? Firefox itself may crash or corrupt, but your operating system isn’t affected.”
By tailoring scripts for FF - it’s easy enough to infect the actual FF and use it as a means to infect other parts of the computer. You’d be better off with a low level browser, not another operating system.
“Firefox is designed to crash if an extension or addon corrupts to prevent your system from going on its knees due to resource overruns. If Firefox is continuously crashing, you’ve likely got a corrupt extension or addon.”
It’s gotten as bad as blue screens on some I’ve fixed. Not a fan of FF.
“Firefox is designed by the GNU community and is leaps and bounds more secure and stable than most other commercial browsers out there unless you’re using Lynx, Mosaic, or some browser with absolutely zero extensions.”
FF and Java are the last time I’ve seen a BSOD and that was back in 2011. 2012 is the first year I’ve never had a BSOD.