The article is essentially correct. From what I've seen, Firefox is only slightly more secure than MSIE, and much of that is due to the fact that it does not support ActiveX components. I've always taken for granted that the browser would not be truly secure, as that would require a rigor in coding and a preoccupation with security that clearly doesn't exist with Firefox.
I use Firefox rather than MSIE today mainly because it seems to be slightly more conformant to many standards and because it offers slightly less opportunity to execute foreign code on my machine (and thus is less likely to transmit viruses). There isn't enough granularity in the security controls, though (I should be able to turn things on and off on a site-by-site or category-by-category basis, and I can't), and I expect security to get worse, not better, as features are added to the browser to make it more attractive. (I know that the features will use code that won't be written or tested adequately.) -- Anthony _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list Mozilla-security@mozilla.org http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security
