Firefox the most vulnerable browser.

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Post November 13th, 2009, 3:28 am

Well, luckygal, according to that article I posted the link to, currently Opera is the least vulnerable browser, followed closely by Internet Explorer. Opera is also a very fast, secure and customizable browser. I would say more so than Firefox, and I suspect Joebert will back me up on that. It is probably your current safest bet on a browser.

In terms of IE, I think everyone got the willies over it because of all the unpatched vulnerabilities in IE6, and the overall bad design of IE7. However, with the advent of IE8, I am much more comfortable with it overall, in fact can even say for the first time I even like it. I used to use FF exclusively, but now I give IE8 nearly equal time, and always have both browsers open and after reading this article and a few others have started paying more attention to Opera and Chrome as well.
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Post November 13th, 2009, 10:50 am

In the report I don't see any of the reported vulnerabilities.

I would like to see if these vulnerabilities were from what add-ons could do to the browser, rather than the base browser.
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Post November 13th, 2009, 11:07 am

I think the safest browser is between your ears (your brain). Really, any browser including IE6 can be safe as long as you use common sense. If you are checking the ballance of your bank account but it just doens't look right, it probably isn't and you should get out asap. No browser will be totally phishing-proof, and that seems to be one of the big bad problems on the web these days.
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Post November 15th, 2009, 1:07 am

Yes that is true ... But it is one of the fastest and the safest as well...
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Post November 15th, 2009, 1:08 am

Yes it the most Vulnerable but the best as well ....
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Post November 26th, 2009, 1:04 am

Mozilla is used by advanced Internet users ...
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Post November 26th, 2009, 1:35 am

TopTraffic wrote:
Mozilla is used by advanced Internet users ...


I can't agree with that. That statement isn't even logical. In fact it is non sequitur ("it does not follow"). My girlfriend uses it, and she is not an advanced internet user. She is what I would deem an "average" or "typical" home internet user. In addition several of the employees at work use it, primarily because I've asked them to and no other reason. They wouldn't have known it even existed if I hadn't installed it on the machines.
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Post November 26th, 2009, 4:40 am

TopTraffic wrote:
Mozilla is used by advanced Internet users ...


I'm not sure that's true. I find it's used by people who are connected to web development and programming. But that also includes folks who think Access databases are the height of technology.
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Post November 26th, 2009, 4:56 am

I think advanced Internet users generally use things other than browsers more than they use browsers.
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