Almost twice the exploits for Firefox as IE from April to September |
Seems like the whole Firefox being more secure facade is faltering. 
From March 2005 to September 2005 10 vulnerabilities were published for Microsoft Internet Explorer, 40 for Mozilla Firefox. In April-September timespan there were 6 exploits for MSIE, 11 for Firefox. Conclusion? As you can see, the facade that Firefox is the cure to the Internet Explorer security blues is quickly fading.
The bottom line in today’s wild, wild web is if your software is popular you have a bullseye on your back for malicious programming. Sad, but true. It’s just completely ignorant to run out any kind of claims of a particular app ‘being more secure.’ If Apple continues to gain users and market share then they too will have to deal with problems on the same scale.
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Yes, there are more vulnerabilities. However, how bad are said vulnerabilities? I assume you’ve heard the saying “It’s not quantity, but quaility.” One Slashdotter said “THe bug in Firefox may allow someone to crash Firefox, but I can just restart it. However, in IE, the bug allows them to gain remote administrator access.”
Comment by Drakonik — September 17, 2005 @ 12:12 pm PST
Drakonik - the bug for those running GreaseMonkey did allow programs to run on the user’s machine.
Comment by TDavid — September 17, 2005 @ 12:31 pm PST
Good point. I’d forgotten about that one. Well, forgive me. I’m not too knowledgeable about the specifics of the bugs. Heck…I’ve barely scratched the surface of about:config. Soo…I’m just gonna shut up now.
Comment by Drakonik — September 17, 2005 @ 9:02 pm PST
And using Opera, is it an option?
Comment by Louras — December 12, 2005 @ 12:47 pm PST