[Bush2000]

Firefox. Gullible Morons Wanted.

[Petronski]

French-Canadian FUD. Yawn.

[JerseyHighlander]

- Mozilla "MSG_UnEscapeSearchUrl()" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

- Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox Window Injection Vulnerability

- Mozilla / Thunderbird Valid Email Address Enumeration Weakness

- Mozilla / Firefox / Thunderbird Downloaded File Content Disclosure Vulnerability

- Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox / Camino Tabbed Browsing Vulnerabilities

- Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox Cross-Domain Cookie Injection Vulnerability

- Mozilla Multiple Vulnerabilities

- Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox Apple Java Plugin Tab Spoofing Vulnerability

- Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox / Mozilla Thunderbird libpng Vulnerabilities

- Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox User Interface Spoofing Vulnerability

- Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox "onunload" SSL Certificate Spoofing

- Mozilla / Firefox Certificate Store Corruption Vulnerability

[HAL9000]

The problem with Foxfire for Windows is obvious: it's running on Windows.

If the operating system is inherently unsafe, there is no way that switching browsers can achieve more than a false sense of security.

[Pro-Bush]

You work for Microsoft?

[Nita Nupress]

Proponents of open-source programming argue altruistic pursuit of perfection by legions of anonymous programmers is bound to produce better code than a proprietary engine such as Microsoft's.

While reading this, it occurred to me that this is a good analogy for Free Republic vs. Old Media.

Proponents of open-source programming accurate news argue altruistic pursuit of perfection by legions of anonymous programmers FReepers is bound to produce better code more accurate news than a proprietary engine lying sack of dung such as Microsoft's Dan RAthER.

:-D

[KwasiOwusu]

Just as I thought.
The open source is 'secure" myth continues to crumble like. Al Gore's presidential ambitions!
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

SHADENFREUD!!

[ShadowAce]

Firefox ping

[SW6906]

Let's see: daily exploits/vulnerabilities found to the tune of several thousand over the years vs. 55 over several years.

I think I'll go with the 55.

I switched to Firefox and my web surfing has never been faster, the daily IE web page problems have disappeared, and so far my machine has far fewer things found by Ad Alert and Spybot when I do scans.

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

I'm no computer expert, but I don't think there is a browser that is impervious to hacking and probably never will be, so I will continue to use Mozilla just because I like it better than Internet Explorer.

[Dead Corpse]

Er... yes. If you don't take the trouble to lock your stuff down, you will get hacked. And? It'd easier to do it on MS's IE than it is on something completely new. Also note, the vulnerabilities found are tied DIRECTLY to things like MS's Active X controls and other such vulnerable nonsense.

Running even a straight Unix terminal and a text only browser would STILL leave you open to intrusion.

Give it a rest...

[mhking]

Firefox is still far better than IE6 ever hoped to be.

[Poser]

It's more secure than Internet Explorer AND... It doesn't download spyware/malware/adware.

So...
It may not be perfect, but it's better than IE.

[JoJo Gunn]

I really wish that the paid shills from Redmond would use larger fonts....

[Peacerose]

For all the Fools and Idiots Who Think They're Safe:

There is no one operating system, browser, anti-virus, firewall, hardware router, or whatever, that cannot be exploited. Thousands of people are constantly looking for a way to hack everything.

The closest you can get to safety is to accept what I wrote above as gospel, keep your OS, browser, anti-virus and firewall updated and watch always for changes in your system.

If you don't understand what I just said, you are part of the problem.

[rwfromkansas]

Firefox: People who want no spyware and popups, plus faster surfing, wanted.

I don't care that it can be hacked.

Big deal. Anything can be hacked with the right tools.

This is news why?

[Tribune7]

It's not that Firefox is perfect. It's just that IE is less so.

[JustAnAmerican]

Psst, well will you looky here :) Straight from the horse's mouth so to speak.

"The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) does note that IE's design makes it very difficult to secure. They note that "There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model,-

-local file system (Local Machine Zone) trust, the Dynamic HTML (DHTML) document object model (in particular, proprietary DHTML features), the HTML Help system, MIME type determination, the graphical user interface (GUI), and ActiveX... IE is integrated into Windows to such an extent that vulnerabilities in IE frequently provide an attacker significant access to the operating system."

[Terpfen]

No one ever claimed Firefox was flawless. It's simply less flawed than Internet Explorer while being a better product.

It's cute how, since you think Firefox is for gullible morons, you then go on to use the browser with even more holes and exploit potential. A picket fence is better than an open yard.