Comments on: ‘Highly critical’ Firefox updates

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:13:49 +0000

Microsucks is a victim of its own successes. By taking over everything it could and leaving the public little in the line of choices; it did no favors to the public. Little development goes into a dead-end. While microsucks has the 90% or better lead in folks around the world using its product, that also means that crackers and virii writers have a 90% or better chance of finding a file to attach their little malwares to.

People are getting fed up with the spyware, adware, malware, and all the other little nasties out there on the net. They are looking for other things that are more secure without having to go through major learning curves to do so. As was pointed out in other posts, the more that go to other products, the more the rewards for those that are willing to intrude on your privacy if they make the crack.

Myself, I went to linux. My browser can imitate IE, OSX, Mozilla, Opera, Lynx, Wget, Netscape, or Safari when it reports what browser I am using. It is none of the above but that is the message the website gets when trying to install the cookies that I don’t allow to load or hidden toolbars (that don’t get installed) or spyware. Nor do I allow it to report what OS I am using as an extra precaution. Windoze doesn’t allow you that flexibility and so you are stuck with what you have.

This is not really a fanboy post for another OS but only to point out that I made the move because I am fed up with just such continual updates because of constant needing of security tightening. Not many will want to learn a new OS, thinking that it is too complicated. I have no problems with that. The less that use linux, the more secure for the rest of us.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:13:38 +0000

There is not much point trying to exploit any applications security flaws when there aren’t many people using it. Now that Firefox is commanding a sizable share of the browser market, of course people are going to take more interest in discovering and exploiting any security weaknesses. Unfortunately.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 01:37:00 +0000

Firefox has moved into the mainstream, and users are going to find problems. It’s akin to looking at a car on the lot, and driving it. You’ll never notice a lot of problems if the device is in a static state.

Granted, it doesn’t seem to have as many as IE. That would seem to be in it’s favor.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:03:19 +0000

Jeez, I’ve been hearing all this “use Firefox, it’s more secure” stuff. Was that all just hype? Or were they just fooling themselves…

Prolly still better than IE even unpatched.