Firefox accounted 44% of all browser vulnerabilities - Polidicks

[b]Source:[/b] [url]http://www.ditii.com/2009/11/10/firefox-accounted-44-of-all-browser-bugs-cenzic-reports/[/url] [release]Firefox accounted for 44% of all browser bugs reported in first half of year, said Ewe, while Safari vulnerabilities came to 35% of total. IE, meanwhile, accounted for 15%, while 6% of all flaws were in Opera. According to California-based Cenzic, Mozilla's browser had largest percentage of Web vulnerabilities over six-month span, while Apple's Safari had dubious distinction of coming in second. Microsoft's Internet Explorer was third, while Opera Software's flagship browser took fourth place. Cenzic didn't separately count number of "zero-day" bugs -- those unpatched at time exploit code went into circulation -- said Ewe, who defended his company's tally at same time he downplayed their significance.[/release] Gotta guess it's not the most secure browser anymore (even though you can't do worse than IE/Safari)

Well, malicious software writers are going to attack the most popular browser, right? So it doesn't suprise me that many of the malicious websites are made to attack Firefox users.

Because Firefox has a faster release cycle than IE or Safari, hence, more bugs that need to be ironed out.

Another reason to go get Opera 10.50 [url]http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/02/05/skin-fixes-unite-and-then-some[/url] There u go. [editline]11:11AM[/editline] [QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;20056960]Because Firefox has a faster release cycle than IE or Safari, hence, more bugs that need to be ironed out.[/QUOTE] There's been released new versions of Opera 10.50 every week the last month. I'm more inclined to think that it's because FF is popular. Boxes aquired (last updated January 6th 21:57 GMT): [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2668640/boxfort.png[/img] |-[img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/rating/box.png[/img] If you gave me one of these without explaining why, you're a Firefox/Chrome/Safari/IE-fanboy (or just contributing to page stretching). | | V [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Trolling" - Greeman))[/highlight]

I haven't had any problems with Firefox, and the addons are great.

I'm happy with Firefox all the same

I use Firefox but I'm starting to get annoyed with it.

[QUOTE=LarparNar;20056962]Another reason to go get Opera 10.50 [url]http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2010/02/05/skin-fixes-unite-and-then-some[/url] There u go. [editline]11:11AM[/editline] There's been released new versions of Opera 10.50 every week the last month. I'm more inclined to think that it's because FF is popular.[/QUOTE] But Opera's made by a company full of crybabies. [editline].[/editline] Was :eng101:

[QUOTE=Panda X;20057069]But Opera's made by a company full of crybabies.[/QUOTE] No, thats just the old CEO, whom IIRC isn't CEO anymore. [editline]11:25AM[/editline] And besides, all the other browser CEO's whined as well. Opera's CEO was just first out doing it, so they got all the media attention.

Now watch microsoft never let this go. "IE is more secure that firefox" "Firefox is shite"

[QUOTE=LarparNar;20057074]No, thats just the old CEO, whom IIRC isn't CEO anymore. [editline]11:25AM[/editline] And besides, all the other browser CEO's whined as well. Opera's CEO was just first out doing it, so they got all the media attention.[/QUOTE] They didn't go to those extremes being nit-picky. [editline]05:28AM[/editline] [QUOTE=LarparNar;20057074]No, thats just the old CEO, whom IIRC isn't CEO anymore. [editline]11:25AM[/editline] And besides, all the other browser CEO's whined as well. Opera's CEO was just first out doing it, so they got all the media attention.[/QUOTE] When'd s/he leave?

[QUOTE=Panda X;20057093]They didn't go to those extremes being nit-picky. [/quote] True [quote] When'd s/he leave?[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stephenson_von_Tetzchner[/url] One month + 1 day. [editline]11:34AM[/editline] Also ITT: FF fanboys rating me dumb without arguments. Me getting dumbs on this point just proved my point actually. [editline]11:36AM[/editline] Wonder who rated me agree.

[QUOTE=LarparNar;20057142]Wonder who rated me agree.[/QUOTE] I did because I'm an Opera fan

Firefox is cool, but lately it's getting so slow it's getting on my nerves. E.g. every 30 seconds, it just freezes for a while. This is why I watch YouTube movies in Chrome, otherwise I can't stand it :mad:

According to this, Chrome has no flaws.

I'm just using chrome on a mac. its fast. it works. i have no problems [editline]10:49AM[/editline] it works for me, so why should i change

I used Firefox before,but it was too slow and crashed too many times for me,so i switched to Chrome,and I am happy with it.

This is number of the bugs found and fixed, not the number of the existing bugs. Firefox just gets most of the bugs found and solved. I bet that there are a lot more bugs in IE but nobody reports them, or nobody bothers to fix them.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;20057389]This is number of the bugs found and fixed, not the number of the existing bugs. Firefox just gets most of the bugs found and solved. I bet that there are a lot more bugs in IE but nobody reports them, or nobody bothers to fix them.[/QUOTE] Yeah IE hasn't been updated since the 90's.

[QUOTE=codenamecueball;20057252]I'm just using chrome on a mac. its fast. it works. i have no problems [editline]10:49AM[/editline] it works for me, so why should i change[/QUOTE] Yeah but there's no bookmark manager or bookmark sync yet (or extensions, that doesn't bother me that much though tbh) so I switched back to FF for mac.

Look at that, fanboyism over web surfing software.

[QUOTE=DrBreen;20058014]Look at that, fanboyism over web surfing software.[/QUOTE] There is for everything. There's someone somewhere arguing that Charmin is better than Cottonelle.

Why not choose chrome?

firefox is awesome, but on my previous laptop it crashed when it directed to youtube, and many other sites.

[QUOTE=LarparNar;20056962]Another reason to go get Opera 10.50[/QUOTE] No. Firefox has fucking cool features :kamina: [editline]12:57PM[/editline] where's that chart that was posted in lmao pics ages ago? It compared who uses what browser, and it had the columns "Newbie | Average User | Professional User" or something.

I love firefox, but it pisses me off when after you close it the process doesn't end and sits there using 300K ram, swear it happens every other time I use it.

[QUOTE=ashxu;20058138]No. Firefox has fucking cool features :kamina: [editline]12:57PM[/editline] where's that chart that was posted in lmao pics ages ago? It compared who uses what browser, and it had the columns "Newbie | Average User | Professional User" or something.[/QUOTE] What feature does Firefox have from default that Opera DOESN'T have. (Apart from bloating addons)

[QUOTE=LarparNar;20058257]What feature does Firefox have from default that Opera DOESN'T have. (Apart from bloating addons)[/QUOTE] The add-ons make firefox awesome :colbert:

[QUOTE=TomoAlien;20056910]Well, malicious software writers are going to attack the most popular browser, right? So it doesn't suprise me that many of the malicious websites are made to attack Firefox users.[/QUOTE] I visited a site on Firefox and recieved the mother of all malware, Antivirus 2010. A quick System restore later, I visited it on IE and nothing happened. :tinfoil:

[QUOTE=Oktoberman!;20058289]I visited a site on Firefox and recieved the mother of all malware, Antivirus 2010. A quick System restore later, I visited it on IE and nothing happened. :tinfoil:[/QUOTE] I under the impression AV2010 was user install, not exploited force install.