[Last Visible Dog]

I skimmed through the article. Where did you get Firefox? How much did it cost? I'm about sick of Windows.

FireFox is a browser

Windows is an operating system

I understand how silly headlines can confuse people.

Get FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

FireFox is currently less vulnerable because it does less (that is pretty much how the model works - expanded functionality means expanded vulnerability and less options means less vulnerability - this is not rocket science). Home users - by all means switch to FireFox.

[silent_jonny]

FireFox is a browser Windows is an operating system

Yeah, I know, my mistake. But Windows and IE are almost synonymous.

[Tribune7]

FireFox is currently less vulnerable because it does less . . .

IE doesn't have tabbed browsing (great) or pop-up blockers (even greater.)

[kezekiel]

FireFox is currently less vulnerable because it does less (that is pretty much how the model works - expanded functionality means expanded vulnerability and less options means less vulnerability - this is not rocket science).

I don't think that's quite what's in play here... IE, because of it's integration with the OS, has built-in vulnerabilities. Firefox doesn't share those limitations. The only thing I haven't been able to do is browse some sites written specifically for IE, which has more to do with lazy, non-standard website authoring than it does IE.

[antiRepublicrat]

FireFox is currently less vulnerable because it does less

Firefox is loaded with features that IE doesn't have. Firefox also doesn't use system-level libraries as its engine and therefore any compromise of Firefox isn't automatically a system-level compromise.