Peter,
I find Firefox slightly more useful that Safari for my own particular
purposes, but I know many others who have a reverse preference.
In my 25 years of Mac use I have never installed anything specific to
protect myself from nasties, and never had problems with nasties.
Most nasties are Microsoft nasties, not Computer nasties as the media
portray them, so I try to use as few Microsoft products as possible.
The only annoyances I have is from spam email. Causes include having
my address on my website, loading images in spurious emails, and once
replying to a spurious email (biggest mistake).
Had a neighbour's Windows PC, riddled with Microsoft viruses etc to
fix last weekend. After 4 hours decided that the only solution was to
re-install Widows. At that point we wished that Microsoft would steal
another Mac feature; the need to NOT reinstall all the applications
after a system re-install. May the Mac stay free from true computer
nasties as long as possible.
On 24/02/2010, at 11:10 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote:
Just a general question re Firefox for Macs. I am a newcomer to the
world of Apple and currently use Safari as the default web browser.
I am familiar with Firefox having used it on my Windows machine for
some time. Are there any benefits in using Firefox or does this
expose protection weakness?
Generally Safari does everything I need of it but always on the
look out for better ways of doing things.
Thanks
Peter...
Kind Regards,
Peter Crisp, Associate, BE Mech
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