Inge
Man-At-Arms
Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Nieuw Lekkerland @ Holland
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 Posted: Wed Mar 16 2005 23:34
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Thanks for the link. I was aware of these problems before, but it's all about finding the best solution; there is no definite bugfree solution.
The conclusion to draw is stated in the comments below the article, which I will copy here:
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Highly critical. Currently, 20 out of 79 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
In Comparison
Mozilla Firefox 1.x with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Less critical. Currently, 4 out of 12 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
The key phrases in each statement are Microsoft's IE Highly critical Vs Mozilla's Firefox Less critical.
Any Critical Flaws that appear in either Mozilla or Firefox are amost always fixed within days of discovery. Also the new flaws that are discovered in Mozilla or Firefox very rarely grant the ability to execute code on the client OS. The record of exploits of Microsoft's scripting systems in Internet Explorer, Outlook, Mediaplayer are abismal. Microsoft seem totally unable to grasp the concept of sandboxed restricted execution of interpreted code.
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Final conclusion: nothing is safe, but if one has to choose between Firefox and IE, then Firefox is the safest choice.
Furthermore: tabbed browsing, extensions (adblocker! bugmenot! copy as plain text! add bookmark here! et cetera et cetera), no Active X support (and let's forget about this 0,001% of sites that makes support of this for non-violent reasons), .png transparancy support, better phishing protection, and less interweaven with your OS (hence: more distance for potential attacks to cover).
Therefore: Firefox.
Inge (Mozilla and Opensource groupie #1  ) |
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