Interesting - probably biased, who knows? Have a read and judge for yourself: http://news.com.com/Symantec+Mozill...rable+than+IE/2100-1002_3-5873273.html?tag=nl
Agreed. I don't think Mozilla are worse than IE for this as IE have always had a lot of flaws although I still like IE I would prefer them to update their use on XHTML and CSS2. Also ActiveX is stupid and can cause so many problems so they should find a way around that.
I dont know if that article is still relevant it says it was produced on Sept 19, 2005 and Firefox has changed versions since then.
Whether or not the Mozilla browsers eventually get attacked more than IE, it will be true that bug fixes for those browsers will be released much more quickly than those for IE. The potential vulnerability is just what comes along with any popular thing.
What chewy said. Moz vulnerabilities are patched within a couple days, at most. With IE, you get to wait for patch Tuesday, once a month.
Really? I thought Mozilla was very much secure though I like Opera more than mozilla because I like its tab browsing.
That was my fault - got that story in a newsletter and thought it was interesting - did not check the date. On the other hand, for those who do not know, Mozilla's security is now being headed by an ex-Microsoft employee - http://news.com.com/Mozilla+looks+to+Microsoft+for+security/2008-7355_3-6117896.html Did check the date this time
Haha, that's hilarious! I wonder why he doesn't just say the Mozilla products are more secure when, during the rest of the interview, he makes it appear so.
I don't use IE as much as I used to and although I like MS I have to agree IE has a lot of flaws which I hope they fix with version 7
Actually, this ratio does not correctly show the real amount of vulnerabilities. May I remind you that because Firefox is open source, many thousands of people can go over the source code and look for flaws. And they do, and they post them on the internet, and Mozilla patches them. Internet Explorer on the other hand, is probably a lot less stable, but we don't know that because very few people have gone debugging it publicly due to its closed-source nature.
Mozilla browsers are more vulnerables, plenty of bugs, lack of "cosmetic" enhancements, and trying to control your surfing. Well at least FireFox, which has disable most of the functions available in Netscape to prevent that you can change this or that and leave it as it is delivered. Not to mention the times that Firefox's site has been hacked... I have never heard that Microsoft has an issue like this
Here's more recent stuff, gotton from /. "A new Symantec study on browser vulnerabilities covering the first half of 2006 has some surprising conclusions. It turns out that Firefox leads the pack with 47 vulnerabilities, compared to 38 for Internet Explorer. From Ars Technica's coverage: 'In addition to leading the pack in sheer number of vulnerabilities, Firefox also showed the greatest increase in number, as the popular open-source browser had only logged 17 during the previous reporting period. IE saw an increase of just over 50 percent, from 25; Safari doubled its previous six; and Opera was the only one of the four browsers monitored that actually saw a decrease in vulnerabilities, from nine to seven.' Firefox still leads the pack when it comes to patching though, with only a one-day window of vulnerability."