NM156 wrote:
=Robin-Hood= wrote:
Chuy wrote:
People simply aren't comfortable browsing the web for some reason. Their afraid to click and try. I can't figure out wh...oh right, if you use IE and click on anything you get 17 viruses, 8 trojans, and SOMEHOW a few STD's.
Now, if you get 17 viruses, 8 trojans, and SOMEHOW a few STD's from clicking anything on BF2s.com, then I'd suspect that this site would become very unpopular. You've got to have some common sense too...
If Firefox and Opera were as widely used as IE, those browsers would be just has bad. There currently is no incentive to attack those browsers, because they're non-factors in the overall scheme of things. But they are gaining ground.. finally.
Some day I'll be famous, and this quote will come back to haunt me. Amazing how much use it gets in the forums though...
Anyway, I disagree with you NM. We'd both agree that, yes, if these browsers were large they woudl be much better targets for hacks and exploits. However, the reality is that these browsers are also much, much, MUCH better at dealing with, openly admitting, and
FIXING their bugs and security holes. I'm not saying this on speculation either, it's already happened a few times. Each serious bug/exploit/hack was discovered, then described, and finally fixed within a week or so. There was a security work around the DAY of the exploits release.
IE still can't do CSS2.1 which has been around since
1997 -- that's nearly 10 years old now. IE has 6 month old security holes that are still unpatched. The IE team is notorious for taking weeks, often months, to fix bugs. IE has a horendous record for patching, reflected by their parent company itself.
edit -- I was about to write 18 long, long paragraphs about my reasons behind this next statement, but suffice it to say:None can say for
certain that Firefox will do better against the flail of hackers and crackers, but I strongly believe that it will stand up far, far better than IE could ever hope to -- when the time comes.