Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Oct 2005 18:58 UTC
Peter Watson, chief security advisor at Microsoft Australia and New Zealand, said that the software maker did not get any pleasure from seeing Firefox suffer a string of security vulnerabilities, despite the open-source browser's growth seemingly being stunted over recent months. "I don't think it creates any benefit for us or anybody in the ecosystem to turn around and say, 'it's good that this company has a whole load of security vulnerabilities'," said Watson.
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2005-07-06
All my problems with the internet browsing stopped when I have started using firefox; If I go to bad sites that will immediately high jack my system when I use IE as a test for vulnerability I get zero problems from firefox. So the vulnerabilities of firefox they talk about is just a hype or rare to affect or less serious, while for IE vulnerabilies are for real. I have seen this with my systems, my friends and clients. for example running firefox on Xandros will be with zero problems for as long as the system hardwar function. With IE the situation is completely different; you need to be a support guy for the computer you use if you have IE installed on it; MS firewall and other countermeasures seems insufficient to stabilize windows boxes thanks mostly to IE.