Firefox Myths

[apollo_1444]

dont know if it was posted already...

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html

lol firefox just got pwnt there.

[toasty]

Re: Firefox Myths

I dunno. The proof is in the pudding, and Firefox is so much more user-friendly IMO. It ultimately comes down to personal opinion, and I'd prefer FF over IE any day -- I could care less what this article has to say...

[KinKyJ]

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same here, FF is the bizz

[Jenks]

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I used to use IE exclusively, as i'm sure many did. What a piece of crap. I don't care what myths are allegedly debunked here, i don't have any problems with FF. Can't say the same when i previously used IE. Proof is in the pudding indeed.

[feather]

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IIRC, that 'article' was debunked on Digg.

[RiseandShine]

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I don't know, I think I still prefer ie although I switch from one to the other

[apollo_1444]

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i was using FF actually, but im gonna download Opera to see that the deal is.

[jeffrey collins]

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I used to use IE exclusively, as i'm sure many did. What a piece of crap. I don't care what myths are allegedly debunked here, i don't have any problems with FF. Can't say the same when i previously used IE. Proof is in the pudding indeed.

I like my FF better than IE...but usually everyday I get at least one time when FF just goes down. And I hate that. I don't remember having that happen that much with IE6. I don't really care for IE7.

[feather]

Re: Firefox Myths

Having used IE, Opera, FF, I'd say Opera is a better browser 'out of the box' but FF shits over all of them 'cos of its extensions.

[feather]

Re: Firefox Myths

Firefox, Safari hit by fewer flaws than IE in 2006

Mozilla?s Firefox suffered from 26 percent fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 than Microsoft?s Internet Explorer, a security company?s research said Monday.

According to Symantec?s tally, 40 Firefox vulnerabilities were disclosed between August and December 2006; Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, was hit with 54 bugs. Opera and Safari ? the browser Apple bundles with Mac OS X ? had four flaws each.

For all of 2006, however, the numbers were nearly neck and neck: Firefox was nailed by 87 flaws during the 12 months, IE by 92.

The trend line also put Firefox in the better light. The open-source browser had 15 percent fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of the year compared to the first, while IE?s total increased 42 percent during the period.

?Internet Explorer was particularly affected by concerted efforts to ?fuzz? the browser for new vulnerabilities,? said the Symantec report, which cited July?s ?Month of Browser Bugs? project as a big contributor. ?The majority reported affected Internet Explorer or Windows components accessible through the browser,? Symantec said.

To add insult to injury to IE, Mozilla developers patched Firefox five times faster than did Microsoft?s. On average, Firefox had an attack exposure window ? the amount of time between the disclosure of a bug and when it was patched ? of just two days based on a sample set of 26 flaws. By comparison, Microsoft took an average of 10 days to patch the sample 15 vulnerabilities. Both vendors? attack windows were a day longer in the second half of the year than in the first six months.

?Web browsers continue to be the big exploit area,? said Vincent Weafer, senior director of Symantec?s security response team ?And they will increasingly be more important as more data reside on the back end, as Web applications become more popular.?

The most recent data pegged IE?s market share at 79.1 percent and Firefox?s at 14.2 percent. Safari and Opera came in third and fourth, respectively, with 4.9 percent and 0.79 percent.

[Yao]

Re: Firefox Myths

So fuck IE. I'll stick with my FF thankyouverymuch. Site looked much like a FF bashing exercise...

[Digger]

Re: Firefox Myths

i did not to read that.....im lazy and IE has more problems than FF, besides i would not change FF.....anyway :P

[jeffrey collins]

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I did notice that FF does use more processor than IE after reading that article. Though at the time I did have 5 windows open with FF, but the power rating didn't go down much when I got rid of the other 4.

[zeronineteen]

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FF for me. IE = internet exploader

[apollo_1444]

Re: Firefox Myths

more like internet expl0iter hahaha