Muad_Dib wrote:colwyn wrote:<snip>
So you think your alright with this for security then do you! Interesting I hope this works for you as I cannot see why this is any different to IE as surely you still have to keep Firewalls and Virus programmes otherwise you will soon be in trouble.
Of course. That's basic. As to how that's different than IE, or Outlook/OE, or Word for that matter, read on.
I guess the security for Firefox itself is better as the hackers are not to bothered about so this would be true!
According to a recent FBI/CERT report (you can look it up—Google is your friend), the number and variety of attacks is highly related to the number of vulnerabilities and not to an application's ubiquity. That might explain why there are so many attacks on IIS and so few on Apache, which serves 2/3+ of all web sites and more web pages than all other web servers combined.
As for hiding all reference to IE as long as it is always updated their (sic) should be no problem.
Only if you're running Win XP. Everyone else, including Mac users, have been abandoned. If past history is any predictor of future performance, I wouldn't depend on that.
Again it depends on what site they go on you will find sometimes Firefox will not work it may open the site especially competition sites as so many of these it is not accepted on.
Er, um. I think I know what you mean. Yes, there are sites that depend on IE proprietary tags and (mis)behavior, including ActiveX. IE with ActiveX enabled is a security risk. ActiveX disabled means the user must diddle with security settings and white lists; is he that knowledgeable? Otherwise if the web author sniffs browsers and refuses to serve to non-IE, then customers are driven off when in fact, most browsers would handle the site well enough anyway. I consider these web authors incompetent and lazy.
Also when you have to update your computers for windows you may have to use IE. Good Luck
I believe another poster addressed this.
IE is obsolete, buggy, non-standards-compliant, and (historically) a walking security vulnerability. There is no sane reason not to switch to a modern browser. Pick one; Moz/Gecko family, Opera, or the khtml family. They are each and every one better and safer than IE.
cheers,
gary
…there is no publishing concept so simple that money, knowledge of HTML arcana, and graphic design can't make slow, confusing, and painful for users.
–Greenspun, MIT
were is my browser???? hahaha
