Is The Firefox Honeymoon Over?
George Ou from ZDNet compares the number of recent security flaws found in IE vs Firefox.
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. It just goes to prove that any popular software worth hacking that has security vulnerabilities will eventually have to deal with live working exploits. Firefox mostly managed to stay under the radar from hackers before April of 2005.
September 17th, 2005 at 4:22 am
I still get a lot more spyware/adware on my machine when browsing with IE than with Firefox. Just run Ad-Aware; it will tell you where the problems are coming from.
September 17th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
Luckily, I’ve never had a problem with Spyware. Right now I’m using Opera. My biggest complaint with Firefox is how much resources it seems to takeup and the fact that it’s slow to startup. I know I can cheat and have it startup and hide in the system tray, but Opera starts up faster without that. Firefox takes up a ton of memory too. Just starting up Firefox with a blank page takes up 50MB. Opera and IE take 18 - 22MB. After browsing a few websites, FF can take well over 100MB of RAM. Hopefully this’ll be fixed in 1.5.