Hi Bill,
In very simple terms, the problem with IE is that it is too
clever (same may used a different word) for its own good. It will
let sites download things (active X's etc) onto your computer that
provide a way for mischievous operators to get at you computer.
Firefox, on the other hand does not have that ability, and so is a
lot safer.
There maybe better explanations and deeper reasons why Firefox is
preferable - but simply put - nasty users cannot get at your system
so easily.
Cheers ... Clyde
On 13/01/2008, at 6:41 PM, bill parker wrote:
Hi Wamuggers
I am trying to persuade somebody that Firefox is safer than IE as
web browser. I hear this from others, but not sure why.
However, I do notice that for any usage of IE (the last one
available for MAC users), I always see a 10MB file "cache.waf". I
notice a slowing of performance as well. OS 10.4.11 and early same.
With Firefox I never get anything of any size when I run 'iclean".
What is cache.waf up to?
Bill
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