Re: Support browsers like Firefox & Opera or continue to lose market s
From: Me (Me_at_there.what)
Date: 02/09/05
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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 06:07:08 -0000
"Jeffrok4" <Jeffrok4@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Microsoft's is shooting themselve's in the foot with the insistence that
> web
> pages must be replete with active content. The Department of Homeland
> Security site has a posting recommending users move to Mozilla Firefox or
> another, more secure browser simply because the active content is where
> all
> the spies and infections live. Yes, you can be attacked using Firefox. The
> likelyhood is so much more remote though, it constitutes a large safety
> margin. Do we want to surf sites with spinning GIF's and scrolling banners
> so
> badly we have to tolerate identity theft and downtime to do repairs on our
> systems?
> Or would we rather enjoy the web for it's native enjoyment without the
> bells
> and whistles and have healthy machines to do it on.
Read the press; as more people start using it, major security flaws are
already starting to be found in FireFox and Mozilla; it's the nature of the
beast.
The only differance is as the source code can be freely down-loaded, the
faults are easier to find and exploit.
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