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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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To leak it would have to not return some RAM after the app is closed. I've not seen that behavior in Firefox at all.
Coding with assembly is like playing with Legos. Coding an application in assembly is like building a car with Legos.
I've been using IE since 4.0 and I've never been owned by any security exploit. The insecurity of IE is all FUD.
I was on a program pirating spree recently, and had maybe two dozen progs to try before I bought any. One program was labled IE7 beta. But lo and behold, I open up the IE7 beta and Norton comes screaming VIRUS! VIRUS! VIRUS! and I just burst out laughing - of course a M$ product is a virus (technically though, Windows is a bug, according to one joke). Now, I was pretty sure that several of these .rar files were viri, but it was a school pc so I didn't think about it much. I also noticed after this that most of these file were 851.7KB exactly, too small for most proggys and a clear indicator of a virus, so I wiped them all. But man oh man my webmastering class thought it was funny.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. - William Gibson
So, the beer contains 5.5% Alcohol, ingredients water bla bla bla.
Cigarettes contain.. oh wait it's a US pack it doesn't tell me (but would in the UK). X mg tar, nicotine etc etc.
Windows contains... what 35% virus installation routines, 20% kill competitors code, 40% report back to microsoft what you're doing, 1% usefull stuff and 99% profit for microsoft (and yes that is more then 100% because we all know windows is bloated!)
I hear this all over the net. I've been using IE 6 since it was released, and I've yet to have spyware/adware on my machine or have my browser "hijacked", etc. I go on some hell-ass dodgy sites, too, and I've yet to come across anything untoward. It's almost as if the insecurity of IE has been blown out of all proportion...
In the end, Microsoft and Firefox are still drawing features from the truly cutting-edge browsers like Konqueror and Opera.
Indeed, that is because Konqueror and Opera do not have the marketshare of the other browsers. They can afford to implement and test out new functionality on a whim, whereas IE and Firefox often cannot.
In the end, that's perhaps the most beneficial way to do things. Innovative developments such as tabbed browsing, for instance, are conceived and pioneered by Opera and Konqueror. Then Firefox and IE copy, bringing the use of such features to the general public.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.