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Originally Posted by Chris T
Again with the (completely untested, never mind unproven) claim that Firefox is only 'safer' because fewer people use it. This is a totally lazy way to defend M$, and sums up quite neatly as 'Everything else is as crap as IE', which is a ludicrous claim to make, without any proof. Firefox may or may not be a more secure browser. Personally I think it is, because the corporate culture of Mozilla is entirely different to that of M$, which is locked in a spiral of mediocrity and indifference, just the same as most monopolistic or quasi-monopolistic organisations. But even if FF's security is an illusion, it's one I'll happily make use of while the script kiddies and other assorted 'net morons are getting their kicks out of screwing up the PCs of the world's lazy M$-lovers.
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Despite what I may have said in the past, I think there is some truth in the "more people use it, so more people hack it" train of thought. I think this is because Hackers often just want to get noticed, so they go for what will get them noticed.
However, I do think both Opera (my preferred browser on the PC & P800), Safari (my preferred browser on the Mac) and Firefox are inherantly more secure than IE.
I also think IE under XP Service Pack 2 and also IE under Windows Server 2003 is inherantly more secure than IE under other Os's or service packs.
It would be nice if MS ditched the non-standard parts of their HTML implementation though.
It would also be nice if MS changed the security setup a bit. For instance, by default Active X plug ins have full access to the system. I think they should only have full access to the system if the site accessing them is in the Intranet zone, and even that's doubtful (although may be needed for access to older web-based admin systems). For sites in all other zones, they should have limited access.
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<snip>Hardly a fair and direct comparison with something that is now on version 6 and *should be* a completely superb product. The fact that we're even contemplating an alternative is, to me at least, further indication of what a shoddy job M$ is doing with its web browser.
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I think we should always have alternate browsers. Competition encourages improvement. In theory anyway, it doesn't seem to have done this with IE..
RE: Your about sending feedback via the Firefox forums. I think this should be encouraged also. It's a different thing, but where I work, I manage two labs full of computers (mostly PCs with a few Macs). One problem we have is users will not tell us if a PC goes wrong (doesn't seem to be a problem with Macs). It can be irritating to get a complaint that a PC died several days ago, and hasn't been fixed when the reason it hasn't been fixed is no one reported it.