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."

Comments

Cons of Mac Firefox

[Gob Blesh It]

Those of us with Macs know that Firefox is really obnoxious on our platform. It makes a very halfhearted attempt at elegance, but fails miserably on almost all counts. Scrollbars don't disable in background windows, HTML controls are rendered in ugly beveled grays, the Preferences dialog is inexplicably a sheet, proxy settings aren't inherited from the System Preferences, text areas in forms aren't beneficiaries of Cocoa's text-editing magic, popup menus are rendered in the wrong font, and on, and on, and on.

If Firefox wants to be taken seriously as a native browser on the Mac, it has a long way to go to catch up to Safari in terms of aesthetics and usability.
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UnPopular Agreement

[AviLazar]

While many of oyu disagree with this guy - I actually agree with him! :D Firefox hasn't shown that many security flaws in the past because it had fewer (95%?) using it then IE and those people using it were (mostly) more advanced then the typical IE/AOL user. So we will (i have said this before many times) see more flaws in firefox. We will see more flaws in Linux and other open software...why? Because it is not a divine gift from god made into a perfect form... it is a piece of software created by people (no more smarter or dumber then those who work for MS, and probably some people who work for MS helped out too) so it will have its share of problems...the more people that use it, the more problems will come to light.

As said before by many other /.'ers ---- security through obscurity. FireFox was relatively unknown (obscure) so had few known security holes - as it is becoming more wellknown and attacked - it will have more security holes revealed.

So for you nay-sayers who think the article writer is wrong - he is not - just because you do not like what he has to say does not invalidate the message.

Re:Con: You can't use autocomplete

[Jugalator]

Yes. I should not have to know a damn thing about driving in order to get behind the wheel.

Oh, wait. That sounds silly, doesn't it?

Yes, as silly as saying that you shouldn't know a damn thing about computers, it should automatically turn itself on when you get seated in front of it. (or some equally extreme car comparison garbage)

Oh, wait. That sounds silly, doesn't it?