Originally posted by Daemon Sinwho's to say firefox isn't vulnerable to other holes?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7784908.stm
Thanks for yet another AMAZINGLY secure version of your browser, Bill!
If you'd like to follow the experts advice and change browsers while Microsoft gaffer-tape up the holes in IE, than try Firefox:
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
so no surfing on shady porn sites for a day or two, if you're too lazy to apply any of the various adviced ways to counter the problem. like setting security settings to 'highest'. what a huge problem.
once upon a time there was great enthusiasm around building 'proving machines', which would then logically verify every little snippet of code. and it worked, in a way. as I remember the whole code of american space shuttles was treated this way. did it prevent the shuttles from exploding? not really. and in fact it turned out to be such a pain that the idea pretty much died decades ago.
when code is coded, mistakes are made. it's a fact of life. no piece of software is immune of this statistical fact, not even the massively hyped firefox, macs nor any other unix variants. so get over it.
and why is it always the most ardent FF, mac & unix users who are SO anxious about ie and windows bugs anyway?
The post that was quoted here has been removednot everything that's brownish is gold.
I do have FF installed btw. the last time I fired it up was probably last summer.
I just started it up for laughs: "the previous session was unexpectedly closed etc... (or whatever the english version says, FF installed itself in finnish without asking me)" - apparently google had been too much to handle for it the last time.
well, off you FF, see you again after a year or two of binary coma. or not.
Originally posted by wormwoodTrue, no software is invincible. However, you'd expect the biggest multi-billion dollar company in the industry to produce the software with the LEAST amount of vulnerabilities.
when code is coded, mistakes are made. it's a fact of life. no piece of software is immune of this statistical fact, not even the massively hyped firefox, macs nor any other unix variants. so get over it.
and why is it always the most ardent FF, mac & unix users who are SO anxious about ie and windows bugs anyway?
The only notification of a potential security problem you get from Microsoft is the patch to fix it weeks after it was discovered. I'm glad there's anti-microsft nuts out there highlighting the dangers for people.