I think the real comparison is the amount of potential exploits in the browser. I think that a lot of these are being fleshed out now with firefox given that the code is open and being looked at by the general public (general public developers that is). Meanwhile, IE remains the blackbox and we have no idea how many more exploits are there.
I've alse read an article that claims these studies are only considering "verified" exploits. At the time of the study, firefox had 3 unverified and IE had about 19 or somewhere around that number. That's something that could really skew the results. Regardless of how much safer they say they are, I "feel" safer using firefox because of the extensions that I've been able to install. I surf with JavaScript disabled by default. With the noscript extension, I can right click on a site that's not working and enable JavaScript for individual domains. Ever since installing it, I'm amazed at how many sites have scripts that come from multiple domains. I think in the end for me it comes down to whether or not you want to be in the platoon that wears the bright red uniforms (IE) or the ones that used to were camouflage, but just replaced it with dark blue (firefox). On 9/20/05, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However it's still true that IE is more feature-rich than Firefox (activeX, > client-side hooks, security zones, etc)... more features mean more potential > issues, more avenues of attack. In this sense it's impressive that the > comparison shows so few issues for IE. > > But comparison of instances is simplistic. An esoteric buffer overrun that > allows a malicious page to crash the browser vrs a default setting which > allows a script kiddie to install a root kit. > > Looking at the articles source material from Securia.com shows that, indeed, > the "criticality" of IE exploits trends higher over the past two years. > However it's also true that the recent trend (the past year) shows the two > browsers much closer in this respect (it seems like most of IE's truly > critical flaws were found earlier). > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:174405 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
