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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.'"
Yes, the honeymoon is over, and now the more enjoyable adventure of building a life together begins.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
It's still more secure than IE.
You make a powerful argument. I'm daunted at the prospect of countering it. I think I'll back down in the face of your intellectual prowess.
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
Great, another apologist for the pickle manufacturers...
"I set MSN Search as my default search engine on Firefox"
I set my Firefox home page to open MSN search with the default search strings "openoffice.org google 'how do I replace microsoft windows with linux?'".
It's the little things that make life enjoyable.
>> ActiveX is not a vulnerability. Stop trolling.
It's a significant point of weakness...
ActiveX is the screen door on the Internet Explorer Submarine.
There are flaws in IE that have been known for better than 6-8 months and still there is no fix.
Ok, sure... I'll bite. I don't buy it. Name ONE risky security flaw that has been known for 6 months without being patched by Microsoft.
ActiveX?
Read my blog.