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FireFox as a Security Risk Compared to IE?
A not-so anonymous Anonymous Coward asks: "The administrator at my work gave me the following reason for not using Mozilla. What do you think? 'FireFox is a security risk. Please refrain from using it. Please continue to use IE 6.0. IE is our only supported browser. FireFox saves encrypted pages to disk and does not give you override capability. It also does not allow automatic cache clearing when closing a browser. These are security risks.'" Do any of you have information that could be used to contradict the administrators information on FireFox? Are there configuration options one can reach from about:config that a user can use to address the problem this administrator has cited?
Just install it anyway. There's no way that they can tell you're using it, unless they're looking over your shoulder. Any admin who would say this, wouldn't know to transparently proxy HTTP traffic and inspect the logs, or have 'remote asset tracking' spy^H^Hoftware on your system worth a damn.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Thats one of the most retarted things ive read all day. Lick lead paint.