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Originally Posted by s1lv3r
"Janulaitis cautioned that Firefox's reputation for security would likely be eroded as the browser becomes more widely used and hackers increase their attacks"
likely is different to definately
I think that it's an inevitibility that FF will be more under attack as time goes on.
However, I'd rather have a standards compliant swiss cheese than a bloated corporate beast swiss cheese.
No browser will be "secure" as such, at the moment though FF is the best of the bunch.
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What I really want to see is security through diversity. I don't want to see 95% of the world using FF any more than I want to see that number using IE. If the world's desktops are evenly split between several browsers, then firstly the developers all have to comply with standards, instead of pushing their own mutated versions of standards, and more importantly it becomes far harder for hackers to get what they want - notoriety- because they can't affect the entire world simply by trying to exploit a weakness in one single browser, as IE allows them to do now.