Sometimes I'm forced to use IE by some websites (Banks mostly! ), but that seems to be reducing. But I toned it down!įirefox+Greasemonkey scripts with XP, Win2K & Ubuntu (Obviously not all at once). The original draft of this was a bit of a rant against the hype about stability/security etc of niche software. Isn't Konqueror based on the same Mozilla Gecko engine as firefox anyway? So wouldn't it be just as vulnerable? Micro$oft's attitude to competition probably doesn't help matters, as it becomes a cause to 'justify' the hacking. But when they are out just to get attention (bit like kids causing trouble), it makes sense to hit the most widely-used stuff with the least knowledgable user base. Just like linux & MacOS would get hacked if it was worth the while of hackers to bother.
#WHAT IS WORSE FIREFOX OR INTERNET EXPLORER FOR MAC#
For Mac users Safari is also not very secure Opera users, I saw nothing about Opera, but that is probably because I was not looking specifically for Opera.Īnd once they become widely-used enough for hackers to bother, they'll be hacked too. Now using only Chrome and Konqueror depending on what platform I'm on. I think the lesson here is not all that is golden is gold. To be honest the 7 FF hacks are serious enough to stop me using FF on my Linux and OpenSolaris machines also and I now think that FF is only as secure as IE, and Greasemonkey can actually increase your chances of an attack, as it only takes a few lines in a GM script to do various things behind your back whilst browsing. Just spent an afternoon looking at this and with some heavy Googling I have found 84 FF hacks 7 of which were high risk and 52 medium risk, which presently affect FF managed 3 fully test 2 of the FF hacks and I was very surprised by the result Also found reference to lots more IE hacks, too many to mention.
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