Firefox - Critical Security Vulnerabilities

T4i

cashless wrote:

Yahoo will automatically redirect you to their old javascript free version in this case, but alot of functionality is of course lost.

Opera (biased obviously) has a web page with speed tests for common browsers

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html

This suggests that the latest version of Opera is faster than the early 1.0 builds of Firefox.

I had a right good read through this some time ago, so I tried Opera and it didnt seem faster than Firefox for anything. So now I'm wondering where they got the results from......

sra

Update to 1.0.4 available now - just posted a new thread.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

sorry if it's been already mentioned on this thread - rushing around a little

lipidicman

It is - that's fixed it!
but it doesn't like 'quotes' now!

cashless_2

T4i wrote:

I had a right good read through this some time ago, so I tried Opera and it didnt seem faster than Firefox for anything. So now I'm wondering where they got the results from......

Benchmarking software applications is notoriously difficult, as comparisons depend on many factors, you've got to just go by your own experience on your own hardware and operating system. I like Opera and Firefox and tend to use them both. But sometimes Opera simply won't work with sites optimised for IE, although as time has gone on this has become less of a problem as companies realise that not everyone is going to be using IE on a Windows PC.

Phonix

Browsers like mozilla etc will always have more functionality over their closed source counterparts. This should mean the security job is harder isn't it, over the less feature rich IE? If so it's a testament to the professionalism of the mozilla foundation that these security flaws are kept to a bear minimum.

All hail bugzilla etc.

jam

Absorbed wrote:

Hmm... Maybe I should give Firefox another go. I never tried any plugins for it.

How much slower is Firefox compared to Opera? because I like to keep lots of tabs open.

I generally have anything up to a hundred tabs open, spread accross perhaps 10 windows and find it reasonably responsive.

hth
jam
PS, yes i know i'm silly to have so many, it's just i leave them these to remind me to do stuff

andy88_2

Another article comparing Firefox and IE vulnerabilities
Brian Livingston's WindowsSecrets newsletter
http://windowssecrets.com/comp/050512/

At Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC), held in Seattle April 25-27, for example, an IE product manager made this case explicitly. Firefox had had (at that time) "three major releases," she said, while Internet Explorer 6.0 had had none. This statement was presented as though a lack of upgrades to IE was a benefit.

In fact, Microsoft has released at least 20 major security patches for Windows or Internet Explorer since November 2004. Most of these patches were rated "Critical," Microsoft's most severe security alert level.

The evidence I've seen so far indicates that Firefox remains much more secure than IE. But it's worth our time to take a closer look.

IE users were exposed for 200 days in 2004

Firefox fixes take days, IE takes months