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Kennedy was referring to the heated debate in the security community over whether Firefox is any more secure than IE, a debate fanned by the release last week of a report pointing out that Firefox has fixed twice as many security flaws as IE so far this year
hahaha, thats good, so because more bugs get found in firefox means less exist in IE?
3 2005-09-24 22:11 (edited by pogenwurst 2005-09-24 22:12)
Re: Firefox Security Alert
I'm just plain sick of those kind of arguments. The number of security bugs doesn't matter. It's the severity of those bugs, how long it takes to patch them (if they are patched at all), and how those bugs are exploited by hackers and purveyors of spyware, adware, etc.
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also, just because the bugs aren't found for IE doesn't mean they are not there 
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Firefox has fixed twice as many security flaws as IE so far this year
Isn't that a good thing? That means that half of the bugs in IE are not fixed yet, right? 
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Thank God I'm using firefox.
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I too encounter Errors in IE n FF, But I never knew have to report also dont know how to report it.
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I prefer just let firefox find its own problem and download the latest version when it comes out
As for IE, I nearly got rid of it, except for the dail in part for my msn
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Speechless wrote:
I prefer just let firefox find its own problem and download the latest version when it comes out
As for IE, I nearly got rid of it, except for the dail in part for my msn
From a consumer standpoint, I didn't need it, Firefox had everything I needed, with the necessary protection.
From a developers standpoint, I honestly could not live without it. Still, Firefox has not yet reached 10% of the total market share, and might not ever. What is the majority of the market? Internet Explorer, because people don't know any better that there is much better software for their computers, that will protect and serve - for FREE.
Well, I have made it a point to get mostly everyone that I know to go out and install Firefox, not only for my peace-of-mind, but for the protection and longevity of their software and hardware.
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pogenwurst wrote:
I'm just plain sick of those kind of arguments. The number of security bugs doesn't matter. It's the severity of those bugs, how long it takes to patch them (if they are patched at all), and how those bugs are exploited by hackers and purveyors of spyware, adware, etc.
True.
But the truth is that Microsoft is very, very lax when it comes to security. In fact, they just recently skipped a security upgrade and rolled it over to the following month. Was it because there weren't any fixes? No...Actually, there were a few critical fixes that would prevent more browser hijacking.
It was sheer laziness.
The Moz people are on top of things. Errors are discovered and fixed very promptly. And usually aren't *that* severe. Nothing as bad as IE anyways. That what you get for grafting the browser so closely to the OS.
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erissiva wrote:
pogenwurst wrote:I'm just plain sick of those kind of arguments. The number of security bugs doesn't matter. It's the severity of those bugs, how long it takes to patch them (if they are patched at all), and how those bugs are exploited by hackers and purveyors of spyware, adware, etc.
True.
But the truth is that Microsoft is very, very lax when it comes to security. In fact, they just recently skipped a security upgrade and rolled it over to the following month. Was it because there weren't any fixes? No...Actually, there were a few critical fixes that would prevent more browser hijacking.
It was sheer laziness.The Moz people are on top of things. Errors are discovered and fixed very promptly. And usually aren't *that* severe. Nothing as bad as IE anyways. That what you get for grafting the browser so closely to the OS.
Just to clarify things, I said what I said in support of Firefox (I probably should have been a bit more clear). I'm not sure if you understood that or not. I agree with you totally.
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pogenwurt - Yeah, I know. I was backing up/reenforcing your point.
Heh...sorry for the confusion.
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erissiva wrote:
pogenwurt - Yeah, I know. I was backing up/reenforcing your point.
Heh...sorry for the confusion.
Ok. I just wasn't sure. The "But the truth is" part kind of tripped me up.
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pogenwurst wrote:
Ok. I just wasn't sure. The "But the truth is" part kind of tripped me up.
That was for the benefit of everyone else. Heh.
Sorry 'bout that.
Check out my blog post:IE: -20, Fx: -3. IE still loses.
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erissiva: Nice weblog post. Enlightening.
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thanks very much for the info.