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Is The Firefox Honeymoon Over?
prostoalex writes "With Firefox market share reaching a substantial level, is the popular Internet browser becoming a security nightmare for IT administrators? George Ou takes a look at the hard numbers. From the article: 'From March 2005 to September 2005 10 vulnerabilities were published for Microsoft Internet Explorer, 40 for Mozilla Firefox. In April-September timespan there were 6 exploits for MSIE, 11 for Firefox. Conclusion? As you can see, the facade that Firefox is the cure to the Internet Explorer security blues is quickly fading. It just goes to prove that any popular software worth hacking that has security vulnerabilities will eventually have to deal with live working exploits. Firefox mostly managed to stay under the radar from hackers before April of 2005.'"
Open Source will always be a better idea than the Microsoft solution!!! Besides, I'm almost sure Microsoft is developing Firefox exploits just to make Firefox look bad. And I could probably argue that the combination of the 11 exploits that Firefox had were less dangerous than the 6 that IE had. So THERE!