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Germany Warns Against Using Firefox

Posted by timothy on from the fuer-ihre-sicherheit dept.

jayme0227 writes "Due to the recent exploit in Firefox, Germany has warned against its use. This comes a couple months after Germany advised against using IE. Perhaps we should start taking odds as to which browser will be next." Note: the warning (from the Federal Office for Information Security) is provisional, and should be rendered moot by the release later this month of 3.6.2.

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  1. OLD NEWS clone, not even a "nice try" (patched) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/20/1436251/Mozilla-Plans-Fix-For-Critical-Firefox-Vulnerability-In-Next-Release

    News: Mozilla Plans Fix For Critical Firefox Vulnerability In Next Release:

    http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/20/1436251/Mozilla-Plans-Fix-For-Critical-Firefox-Vulnerability-In-Next-Release

    LMAO!

    "Yes, because Opera has never had this sort of vulnerability!" - by clone53421 (1310749) on Tuesday March 23, @09:27AM (#31582488)

    Oh, THAT's SO "clever" of you, posting an OLD Opera bug (the one I put up above, it's a "wee bit more current", wouldn't you say? LOL!)...

    ?

    (See, I can "play those games too", & POST OLD NEWS, just like you (mine's a BIT MORE CURRENT THOUGH, eh??))

    Still, based on your "reply", I must ask you a question - Are you, like, into "day old bakery goods" too?

    (Apparently you are, posting "OLD NEWS"... lol!)

    Still, perhaps that is NOT YOUR FAULT, you posting OLD news that is outta date (again - since FF is PROVABLY slower than Opera, proof below):

    OPERA ALSO SURPASSES FIREFOX IN BROWSING SPEED, at BOTH the javascript processing & HTML processing/parsing speeds levels as well, consistently & for years, no less!

    Per latest:

    1.) SunSpider tests done here recently -> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/gallery/features/356350/on-test-the-hidden-seven-browsers-in-the-windows-ballot/145087 [pcpro.co.uk] [pcpro.co.uk]

    2.) AND IT HAS BEEN "BLOWING AWAY" FIREFOX IN HTML PARSING/PROCESSING SPEEDS AS WELL, & FOR YEARS NOW, per this test years ago -> http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#win and this one too last year also -> http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49302491,00.htm

    ("Beat that with a stick", as the saying goes!)

    APK

    P.S.=> LOL, this posting & others I did made me just laugh though - nearly every post I did was "modded down", & the funniest part is, all I did was inform people about Opera, with verifiable concrete facts (this only makes me realize I am surrounded by a pack of Mozilla/Firefox fanboys - however, the FUNNY part is, is this: I actually LIKE & USE Mozilla FireFox too... it's just that I see Opera CONSISTENTLY beat FF in both speed, and overall security too, typically & for years now (though FF has done a great job lately on keeping up vs. security vulnerabilities, admittedly, especially vs. their track-record in years past))... apk