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Browser Vulnerability Study Unkind to Firefox
Browser Buddy writes "A new Symantec study on browser vulnerabilities covering the first half of 2006 has some surprising conclusions. It turns out that Firefox leads the pack with 47 vulnerabilities, compared to 38 for Internet Explorer. From Ars Technica's coverage: 'In addition to leading the pack in sheer number of vulnerabilities, Firefox also showed the greatest increase in number, as the popular open-source browser had only logged 17 during the previous reporting period. IE saw an increase of just over 50 percent, from 25; Safari doubled its previous six; and Opera was the only one of the four browsers monitored that actually saw a decrease in vulnerabilities, from nine to seven.' Firefox still leads the pack when it comes to patching though, with only a one-day window of vulnerability."
Opera is a decent browser, unfortunately it has been known to break on some pretty common javascript. Like xaramenu which is used by quite a few sites. Opera is one of the browsers I test on. I test our web app on Safari, Konqueror, Camino, Firefox and IE. Even though I may get one opera visitor every couple of months. My stats show it about even with Konqueror, and both are almost entirely from users in Europe.
I'm sure Microsoft will have ironed out all security problems with this version.