On 9 Sep 2005 at 12:49, Phil Daley wrote: > <http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10 > 801,104504,00.html?source=NLT_AM&nid=104504>
Firefox is still a safer, more secure browser than Internet Explorer. Compare the Secunia pages for IE6.x and Firefox: IE6.x http://secunia.com/product/11/ Firefox: http://secunia.com/product/4227/ Look at the graphs for unpatched vulnerabilities and for criticality. Even with this brand-new vulnerability (that will probably be patched before this weekend is over), Firefox has substantially fewer vulnerabilities in the first place (note that it's not a matter of having been out longer, as the time graph for IE shows that vulneratiblities continue to be found at a regular rate), and those that remain unpatched are on the whole less severe than those that remain unpatched in IE. All software has vulneratbilities, and the difference between IE and Firefox is in the design philosophy (IE has many more risks preciesely because of the way it was designed, a class of vulnerabilities that can never happen in Firefox because of Firefox's basic design). Additionally, the Mozilla project responds to reports of vulnerabilities far, far more quickly than Microsoft does. IE had a major vulnerability reported a week or two ago (and I note, Phil, that you didn't post to the list about that), and it remains unpatched. Again, I predict that a patch for this new Firefox vulnerability will be out by Monday, and certainly before the report is a week old. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
