Mozilla Firefox

Hmmmmm is this popular browser now following in the footsteps of Microsoft's IE?

I've noticed now, how flaws are starting to appear (the browser suffering its 1st major 1 to my knowledge just recently)

I know that a patch has been released allready but is it going to end up like IE and keep getting patched every other week??

should i keep using it safe in the knowledge that its still as secure has its been stated (and safer than IE)???


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/2005 08:49PM by BorgDroneX.

As it gains popularity amongst people it will become more of a target to hackers so it's own success will kill it in due course

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Well, but at least they fix it's problems instantly, that sadly wasn't the case with Microsoft and IE though.


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Also bear in mind that a lot of IEs problems are/were ActiveX related. Disable that (on a clean install) and most of the serious security problems would go away. Firefox will never have ActiveX, and so those problems simply aren't possible.

Any browser will gain popularity among hackers when it rises up the in the market share tables, but it's been around for (I'd guess) a year now, since it got popular, and how many major flaws have their been?

What 'major' problem did Firefox have?

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Not enough people were using it, that's the main problem.

Firefox rules. Except I use Opera.

I wonder how many people microsoft have tasked with hacking and finding holes in firefox?

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To be honest, like villej said, at least with Firefox updates come out almost instantly. There's also the advantage of being able to use it on a USB key, i.e. without registry - so you can use it properly on things like school PCs etc...link:

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Lack of ActiveX controls is also good, but the best thing for me has to be extensions such as as the web developer tool, aardvark, and instant validation of html/xhtml etc...

Also, supports CSS-2 far better than I.E. 6 (which basically doesn't for all intents and purposes), and can handle true colour transparency in images, compared to 256-colour in IE. Very annoying that IE can't do that!

Basically, I love Firefox, and I doubt IE 7 will do anything to change my mind either

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It seems the bandwagon these days is to hate everything made my Microsoft. Meh indeed.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 is out now fixing these issues

To be fair I have nothing against Microsoft especially. I happily run XP Proffesional and Microsoft Office (although I do also use the Open Office.org 2.0 BETA and Linux as well). To be honest, it's not the security issues that bother me with Internet Explorer - not once did any security issues cause me any problem. What I can't stnad is is Microsoft's lazy and blatantly crap implementation of CSS-2 standards and HTML. That's actually what annoys me about IE. If only there wasn't a problem with that, I'd be very happy with it (Although the extensions available on firefox would still mean i wouldn't want to change - good for web development).

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Personally, I understand the MS stance with IE, WMP, OE and the rest - I don't agree with how they've dealt with it, technically, but I'm pleased they're there. For newbies trying to get internet access, email, and media playback would be rather harder to explain...