Does anybody know if Firefox can pass the Acid2 test?IE v7 can't. Microsloth admits it. Brand shiny new version, too. What a shame! Largest software behemoth in the world and they can't design a simple browser.
Posted on 08/01/2005 6:19:16 PM PDT by Asphalt
"Computer Weekly is reporting that Firefox has had more flaws found in it this year than Internet Explorer."
The report in the UK-based IT trade publication states: "There have now been more flaws in the Firefox browser this year than in Microsoft's Internet Explorer." It does not give a source for this statistic but it may be relying on data from a security advisory service such as Secunia. The 2005 Secunia vulnerability report for Firefox 1.x states that there have been seventeen security flaws in Firefox this year, while the 2005 Secunia vulnerability report for Internet Explorer 6.x
includes only nine advisories. There are more unpatched IE vulnerabilites though, and it should be noted that not all security flaws are equally severe.
This is not the first time that more security vulnerabilities have been reported in Mozilla products than in Internet Explorer. In March, Symantec published its Internet Security Threat Report Volume VII (you have to supply your personal details to Symantec to download it), covering the second half of 2004. The report said: "The discovery of vulnerabilities affecting browsers appears to be on the rise, with more Mozilla vulnerabilities documented in this period than those affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer... Between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2004, Symantec documented 13 vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer. This is notably lower than the 21 vulnerabilities affecting each of the Mozilla browsers that were documented during the same period. Six vulnerabilities were reported in Opera and none in Safari." (This excerpt is included on page 3 of April's Langa Letter: The Pros And Cons Of Firefox.)
Faithful Firefox user here. I just cleaned two viruses off my notebook last weekend which were identified as MSIE vulnerabilities. I only use that browser for my e-mail and am now considering changing that.
But no matter what browser you use, you need current anti-virus software.
I like and use both Firefox and IE. Vulnerabilites happen. As long as they get fixed, I'm happy.
I like that name..."Secunia"....sounds exotic.
In fact, I'm using IE now while I install the newest Firefox (been out of town for the past few days).
Does anybody know if Firefox can pass the Acid2 test?IE v7 can't. Microsloth admits it. Brand shiny new version, too. What a shame! Largest software behemoth in the world and they can't design a simple browser.
No matter what browser you use, you will get a virus if your configuration is not correctly set up.
I do not use an anti-virus software, and I use IE6 with Windows XP. And I don't ever get a virus or spyware.
Come to think of it, if Micro$oft stumbles, mumbles and falls trying to design a silly browser, I sure hope they don't think they could design, say, an operating system with built in GUI. That's gotta be at least a little more complicated than a browser.
Yet.
I dunno, updated a week or two ago to the latest version of Firefox, and the performance seems notably worse. More crashing(rarely did before), sometimes slower, and much slower in loading graphic intensive pages (has an annoying hangup when scrolling down a page of pictures.) And of course every version has completely stunk when loading certain java pages (like the Nat'l Weather Service radars.)
No.
Never. No virus can get inside my computer.
I guarantee you that.
ActiveX is disabled on my computer. NetBIOS is disabled. I have protocol filtering. WinXP firewall enabled. I have a bunch of ports disabled. If you look, you can't even find me on the network. I am invisible.
With open source software such as FireFox, bugs and security vulnerabilities are reported and fixed quickly.
With proprietary Microsoft software such as Internet Explorer, which is more integrated with the Windows operating system rather than a modular layer on top of it, bugs and security vulnerabilities may not be acknowledged or fixed in a timely manner.
IE 6 has been a good overall browser. We use it extensively in enterprise applications. Firefox is small simple and relatively secure and that is its flaw when used as anything but a web-site browser.
I use Firefox at home regularly, but it has its place.
IE is very versatile and while that makes it difficult to secure it also make it very useful.
MS has its troubles (mostly due to the self imposed catch 22), but they have built two very nice operating systems (W2K & XP Pro) and I expect Vista to be even better.
If you really want to screw over the punk hackers then run WIN98SE and Mozilla 1.7 with SpyBot S&D and AdWare, they are too busy trying to break into XP and Internet Destroyer to look for the old stuff.
Critter free for 2 years+
I would use Win98... But I already used WinXP for over a year, and I love it. I can't go back now. And actually I have no reason to go back.
That's very true. :-D
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