Comments on: Symantec: Mozilla Firefox is least secure Browser

By: Gerald Munar

Gerald Munar — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:54:44 +0000

I use Firefox and it’s really great…

By: johnxarce

johnxarce — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:53:05 +0000

yup tama kayo ganun talaga opera user ako kaso hindi ako satisfied kaya firefox din gamit ko

By: JC John SESE Cuneta

JC John SESE Cuneta — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:14:26 +0000

Not really “popularity”, Opera is still very popular but it appears from their study that Opera is the most secure. I would say that Opera’s popularity is more or less the same as FF’s.

Then Safari. Being a new browser for Win-based OS, Safari is doing a great job.

As we all know, most FF problems came from plugins and addons.

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:09:11 +0000

Are you shitting me?? OMFG, and I thought Firefox was safer than even IE7 (which is why I switched over). So should I go back to IE or stay with FF??

By: vern

vern — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:12:54 +0000

lol, more people still use IE.

By: animomedia.com

animomedia.com — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:30:34 +0000

I still prefer mozilla.

By: buddy

buddy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:49:08 +0000

firefox having more reported vulnerabilities doesnt mean IE is any safer. take note that these are just the ones that are brought to the attention of the experts. having more reported vulnerabilities, IMO, means more ground to improve the browser and the reason why IE has less issues is because no one bothers to check it anymore.

By: Aja

Aja — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:22:10 +0000

I stick with Firefox here. That report is even for 2007. How many fixes had MS released since then? Mozilla has sure made many. Performance even got better now that I’m on version 3 beta 5. Open source is way better as it exposes vulnerabilities sooner, therefore making fixes sooner as well.

By: XpressMusic

XpressMusic — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:28:18 +0000

That is really true eversince. Opera is way way more secure and it can prove itself as the fastest browser on earth! IMHO, It doesn’t share the same problem with Firefox that eradicates your ram until it lasts.

By: RHB

RHB — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:18:14 +0000

Fire Fox being free might be a reason to use it, but IE is free with my computer as well. I use both, have to, the statement that more people use Firefox needs checking. My web stats indicate 60-70% of my users are using IE. Not sure what the market share is currently.

By: gamie

gamie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:23:23 +0000

Fact is that more people are using Firefox than MSIE, Opera and etc. So tendency is that more users will scrutinize the software. We should know that by now, its like asking the same reason why Microsoft OS is more *vulnerable than a Unix OS. You don’t see it if you don’t use it, in this case, more people are using Firefox than any other browser.

I got greater appreciation with Firefox compare to MS for patching problems. The difference is that I get Firefox for free!

By: vern

vern — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:19:07 +0000

The question people should be asking is the severity of those vulnerabilities. Even if IE had only a single vulnerability, but was a critical one which could compromise control of the system, it’d be a bigger issue than all of FF’s faults. It is more important security wise look at how critical something is and how quickly it can be exploited in the real world beyond a proof of concept. Every vulnerability that needed to be looked at has been fixed with speed by Mozilla … which is more than I can say for Microsoft which has left many bugs in IE in the past for years. IE is also a mature platform, if something has been out for years, it damn right should be secure. FF on the other hand is constantly developed with features and more features.

By: RHB

RHB — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:41:38 +0000

Also, statistics, as many of us are aware, are misleading when you look at raw data, for all the reasons stated above one has to look beyond the numbers.
I try to write code to be compliant with both ie 7-8 and Fire fox, it is difficult for me to get it right for both. Using Dreamweaver there are some issues I have, but it could easily be my inexperience.

By: randell

randell — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:35:55 +0000

But of course! Symantec’s anti-virus is often bundle in Windows installations.

By: Ozy

Ozy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:09:54 +0000

I always thought that Mozilla was a secure browser but the explanation included does make sense.

Either way, the service of Mozilla has been great. Open source ftw!

By: Ade

Ade — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:40:08 +0000

But Firefox keeps on updating constantly. So isn’t that actually good that they keep on finding flaws to update FF?

By: John Lloy

John Lloy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:35:21 +0000

wow mozilla lang talaga nakalagay sa legend so lahat ng products under mozilla bayun?

By: BrianB

BrianB — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:20:11 +0000

It’s obvious isn’t it? You should see the firefox on my pc laptop. It’s actually merged with Internet Explorer for some reason and the window got like an empty apron, so if I use that laptop, I’d ether be browsing with Maxthon or Safari.