Why Mozilla Needs To Go Into Survival Mode

Crazzaper writes "I have been using Firefox for many years, and the war of the browsers has been around for longer than that. It just so happens that now we have a lot of options out there: IE, FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari, and others. People are always talking about how one browser is going to take down another, but maybe that's not the issue at all. It seems very possible that one browser, like Firefox, can be taken down by multiple browsers at once, whether or not there was any intention to compete specifically with Firefox. I hadn't seen it this way, but I do now."

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Re:No extensions, no FF killer

[Blakey Rat]

Even if you compare pristine versions of browsers, IE sucks.

Sucked, past-tense. IE8 has all of the same security feature as the other browsers, and more than some. (For example, process separation-- IE8 has it, Firefox does not.) If it's "more insecure" that's because it's attacked more, because more people use it.

The real problem is that people got so used to IE6, they're still going on and on about the same old IE6 griping without updating the rhetoric to fit the current version of IE. You might not personally *like* IE8, but to claim it has worse security than, say, Firefox I believe is nothing but FUD.