Ya know, I like firefox and all but I still prefer IE.
As it has gained in popularity, it HAS become more of a target and the vulnerabilities are showing.
But then again, I quote from another thread...

That's one of those excuses that gets repeated so often people begin uncritically swallowing it till it becomes "common knowledge

It was only a matter of time. I use both browsers. I prefer IE, but sometimes I am only able to download pic's in bmp format. I use Firefox to download pic's and everything I download off WC.

It certainly isn't perfect, but it's still more secure.
Anyhow, security is not a worry of mine, I consider myself protected enough and smart enough in my browsing habits.

I love Firefox because it's a browser of this decade, not an old browser that hasn't seen any real feature update since the last millenium.

I agree with something I read somewhere about firefox.

"Yes, Firefox has holes and hackers will target these. But, since Firefox is opensource the holes get caught before the attacks get wide spread or before they even start."

That isn't a exact quote but it's roughly what was said.

If you have you options set to check for updates every time you use Firefox, it will plug the holes before you will have a problem.

Keep in mind... ALL Software has bugs/holes/and backdoors that the programers put in. Software is created by a human and will always be defective and be able to be cracked. But since thousands of people are working on Firefox, unlike IE and other non-open source browsers.

To quote another section of the full article..

The Mozilla Foundation has fixed hundreds if not thousands of security vulnerabilities over the last few years without notifying the world and without providing security patches, instead they have simply just told their users to upgrade," he says. "We have to remember that all software has security vulnerabilities, the only difference is in how we anticipate them and inform the world about their existence.

Unless you were reading the notices, you would not have even know to upgrade. It was my understanding that FF did not "update" itself when you checked, you had to look for the update. (I may be wrong on that though).
Perhaps by not informing the world of the vulnerabilities, they were able to avert attacks, but that is still a double edged sword IMO.

Either way.. like I said, I still like FF and will use it occasionaly, I just prefer IE.

Keep in mind... ALL Software has bugs/holes/and backdoors that the programers put in. Software is created by a human and will always be defective and be able to be cracked.

That cant be any more true, people sometimes forget that about software\computers..::laughs:: I think it's the whole "computer" word itself..I dont know..

But yeah, you can be hacked no matter what lengths you go to, to aviod it. So as far as Firefox goes, I will keep using it, along with IE and the Netscape browser, each browser has features that I like and I am not going to live my life in paranoia that someones going to break into my box..If and when that happens it will just be one more thing added to my list of "things to deal with" LoL

Zero.

Phoon, since you like FireFox but prefer IE, you sound like someone who should take a look at Maxthon. It's got the tabbed browsing like FF but is based on IE so it also has the compatability that FF sometimes lacks. I have both on my system but use FF as my default because it's not as complicated. However, I sometimes need to use those sites that give FF fits and I create shortcuts for them that use Maxthon. The only time I use IE is on the Updates site.

Lantec.. I REALLY like Maxthon. The only thin I don't care for is the proxy setup of it. I sometimes use 2 proxy servers at work. Maxthon doesn't have the setting flexibilty that I needed. Otherwise, it is indeed a great tool.

Maxthon used to be called "MYIE2" right?

I have Maxthon installed also because I wanted the tab browser and session keeper for IE also.