Please provide me with a link to your source. I would like to know were you received you information this way I can read up on it. Please educate me if you feel that I am uneducated regarding the information. By the way spyware can be received other ways then by your browser.
Please provide me with a link to your source. I would like to know were you received you information this way I can read up on it. Please educate me if you feel that I am uneducated regarding the information. By the way spyware can be received other ways then by your browser.
dude, noone here is claiming it to be the best, but you are claiming it to be just baout the worst. As of the moment, IE6 IS the worst. on my win 9x PCs I ended up having to do complete reformats and regular virus scans after about a year. I used FF for several years and scanned far less freqently. While IO collectred pproximately 3000+ pieces of spyware/adware/etc. I got something like 3 with firefox, and they were just cookies.
That "Security Exploit" is Patched Permenantly....Or so Mozilla Says....Either way, I have successfully never Received a SINGLE Virus from Surfing, to even Downloading through FTP with Mozilla, and I cant say the Sam about Internet Explorer....
Please provide me with a link to your source. I would like to know were you received you information this way I can read up on it. Please educate me if you feel that I am uneducated regarding the information. By the way spyware can be received other ways then by your browser. [snapback]2078121[/snapback][/quote] Yes that is true, though most of them come from the browser e.g My sister has a laptop with nothing on it apart from the things that come with it and Norton, she used IE for a month, then did a Norton check and found 421 Spywares from ad's on IE. She then tried Mozilla for a month, spyware = 3. Notice the difference?
Please provide me with a link to your source. I would like to know were you received you information this way I can read up on it. Please educate me if you feel that I am uneducated regarding the information. By the way spyware can be received other ways then by your browser. [snapback]2078121[/snapback][/quote] Yes that is true, though most of them come from the browser e.g My sister has a laptop with nothing on it apart from the things that come with it and Norton, she used IE for a month, then did a Norton check and found 421 Spywares from ad's on IE. She then tried Mozilla for a month, spyware = 3. Notice the difference?
Please provide me with a link to your source. I would like to know were you received you information this way I can read up on it. Please educate me if you feel that I am uneducated regarding the information. By the way spyware can be received other ways then by your browser. [snapback]2078121[/snapback][/quote] Yes that is true, though most of them come from the browser e.g My sister has a laptop with nothing on it apart from the things that come with it and Norton, she used IE for a month, then did a Norton check and found 421 Spywares from ad's on IE. She then tried Mozilla for a month, spyware = 3. Notice the difference?
Firefox > Opera > IE Firefox and Opera had all of the features first. Then Microsoft comes along with v7 It has Tabs! and PNG Suport! OMGOSH! hehe -Zarox
This is a stupid thread. Everyone who has used Firefox for any reasonable amount of time knows that it is superior to IE in just about every way. Let this guy be misguided. If he wants viruses and spyware galore, let him use IE.
I have about every possible browser... And I still think IE is better. I'm used to it and I didn't notice anything in FF that I don't have in IE or would want to have. I see absolutely no point in the tabs. I used FF for a few hours and I was like "Did I use tabs ?" It is not more secure then IE. They claimed it to be more secure when it first came out. Clearly, when like 1% of all people is using it you won't get hacked or something. It's not like IE attracts spyware. If you stay away from porn or illegal sites you have nothing to fear. Maybe FF is full of bugs or what not, maybe they just don't tell anyone. Obviously it would ruin their reputation as the "safest" I believe Symantic discovered more bugs in FF 1.0 then in IE 6. I know it's 1.0 But the version has nothing to do with it. Since the beginning they claimed to be safer then IE. So why would it be safer know ?
I guess you are just that wierd exception, most people like the tabs and skins/themes. At my school we were all issued laptops, I downloaded Firefox and all my friends stuck with IE. They dont go to any porn websites or any crap like that because it is all recorded on our computers and you get fined if you do. They got 10 times the spyware I got >.<
It's just, they basicly copied the whole 'internetbrowser' idea and made some inprovements like the tabs and such. However, a lot of java content doesn't have sound. You have to download extra plug-ins to view flash instead of it just being able to. They bring out a new version every so often as if it were a new msn messenger or something, while microsoft makes patches to solve problems, but no one notices it because they aren't all like "look we have a new version !" And above that they make it seem as if their browser is safer because it isn't IE, while it is probably equaly safe or slightly worse/beter. Wich also no one notices because 4/5 of all people uses IE and not that many hackers are going to waste their time on the other 1/5. The fact that it has built-in pop-up blocker and such things is a pro, but you can just as well download Google toolbar instead of having to dowload plug-ins to view normal web-content.
Frenchies know what they're doing at least http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060205/tc_af...tsoftwarepolice Lets stop and think about that for a second. If Fx was full of bugs, dont you think we would have noticed that by now? If your too lazy to click the little button that downloads flash in seconds and then installs it (total time, about ten seconds) then you shouldnt be using a computer. Its not downloading an extra plugin, its the same pluging on IE, exept due to liscensing and distributions laws, they cant bundle it. IE has been on version 6 for a veeeery long time. Its impossible to completely stay away from malicious sites. If you can navigate the internet, and avoid every single malicious website, porn site, or any site that possibly was coded to result in an instability of the broswer then please enlighten me how to do this, becuase I was pretty sure it cant be done. Lets pay attention to the numbers. 1, and 6. IE has had 6 versions come out. To then compare that to the first version of something else is a little silly. If its going to be compared, then compare the latest official stable release of IE to the latest official stable release of Fx. Doing otherwise is dumb. And finally Its safer becuase its safer, which includes it being not IE, becuase IE's security flaws are what makes it not safe. (Active X anyone?)
