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IE7 Leaked
lju writes "IE7 has been leaked according to pcpro. From the article: '...last Friday it was revealed that a build of the new browser - version 5299 - along with numerous screenshots, was available online.' "
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someone released a browser and nobody came?
firefox has left the building!
It's a technological marvel! A Google search bar, tabbed browsing, better security, and a phishing filter! Who would have thought of....wait a second, my browser has the same thing.....and it's called Firefox!
i can't find an ie*.deb in unstable, so i got that goin' for me...
Serenity now, insanity later.
It seems that IE7 copied so much functionality from FireFox one has to wonder if Gate's coders merely took FF code and incorporated it into IE7. Since FF is GPL one has to ask: "where's the source?"
Oh, BTW, it you think anyone other than MICROSOFT leaked IE7 you're living in a fantasy world.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
I think what you meant to write is "IE is widely known", which leads to it being an insecure browser. Who's going to work on an exploit for Firefox/Mozilla/Opera in hopes of attacking the sub 10% of the population actually using those. Just because exploits haven't been found / published doesn't mean that Firefox is any more secure than IE.
More so, no matter how many resources Microsoft has to throw at the problem, society is so messed up that there will always be more people out there trying to infect/corrupt/destroy grandma's computer. The real question you should be asking is, "Why do we need a secure browser?" Because the answer is terrifying.