OK, conference call with New Yorkers is over, so in my dying moments I'll toss in a couple of comments...
1. Lots of time, energy, bandwidth, etc have been spent concerning IE vx FF as regards to which is more secure. Currently, I believe the consensus is that Safari is the worst. 2. I agree with another post, that is, right - a domain admin should not be downloading stuff. -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCA® Michael Ross <mr...@itwif.com> wrote on 03/19/2009 11:26:34 AM: > All good points.. really. > However.. I disagree that it IS more secure.. > For example.. a recent issue... > http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2934 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:10 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: IE 8 today > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Michael Ross <mr...@itwif.com> wrote: > > I dunno why.. but I disagree with statement touting that firefox is the > top > > dog to work with or use.. > > Okay, I'll bite... :) It's been a long week; this will be refreshing... > :) > > I like Firefox better. It's faster and more flexible. Firefox > tends to work they way I want. I can make it do what I want more > easily. There are more useful extensions for Firefox > > Firefox works on all my computers, not just XP and Vista. Yes, we > still have Win 2000 in production at work. I've got Linux at home and > on my laptop. Firefox runs everywhere.. > > Extensions to MSIE, like IE7Pro, let IE catch up to Firefox in many > ways, but Firefox has been doing more of what I want "out of the box" > for years and years, when MSFT was still leaving us languishing with > MSIE 6. Why should I go through the pain and effort of switching back > now? > > The development community responds better and faster than Microsoft. > See above. > > In practice, I think Firefox is more secure than MSIE. Web > developers wanting to target MSIE are encouraged to use ActiveX, and > downloading native machine code over the Internet into a browser is > horrible idea and always was. NoScript blocks even JavaScript-based > attacks. Permit Cookies lets me manage cookie permission easily. > > The fact that some sites *still* don't work right with anything but > MSIE 6, and the fact that Microsoft *still( makes it unreasonably hard > to run multiple versions of their browser, means that I can't even > really try seriously newer releases. With Firefox, I can simply > install to a different directory. It takes all of five seconds. > > > I have zero issues using IE7 ... > > Zero.. EXCEPT ... > > "That word you keep using. I do not think it means what you think > it means." :) > > > as far at the memory issue.. ehhhh I just reboot and in 1.5 > > minutes ... > > Another thing I like about Firefox is that, since it hasn't been > shoved into the OS core in an attempt to stifle competition (see > Findings of Fact, US v. MSFT, 5 Nov 1999), I can easily shutdown, > kill, and/or upgrade the browser without having to reboot my *entire > computer*. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
