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That seemed to be Wednesday's lesson from security information provider Secunia for the developers of the major Internet browsers. The company released information on two common security issues with the tabbed browsing feature found in several flavors of the Mozilla Foundation's browsers, the Opera browser, the Konqueror browser for Linux and two third-party plug-ins that add the feature to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
One flaw would let a malicious Web site that's open in one tabbed window have access to the information typed into another tabbed window. The other flaw lets a malicious Web site open a dialog box that seems to originate from a site displayed in a different browser tab.
bewary of suspicious activity.
What about MAC OSX Safari Browser?
It too has "tabbed window option", but I do not use that feature
since I find it annoying. I only use Internet Explorer for Mac when
I HAVE TO (1% of the time).
Mac OSX Safari is 128bit hexidecimal enryption & Unix OS is
pretty stable & secure with password encoded Firewall protection
built in.
But NO computer, NO OS, NO browser software is totally safe...
-Eyes wide open in Seattle-
using "Open Link in New Window" rather than the "Open Link in
New Tab" used to test the other browsers.
(11 Comments)
The important thing to consider is how many flaws have your browser had? Microsoft has clearly had the most, the other have had far fewer. This makes anything other than Internet Explorer much safer. Also, with Microsoft's update attitude the chances are the other browsers will get a fix long before IE. Add to that the features that the other browsers have over IE and the choice is simple.
As for people that critisize (sp?) I say anyone that doesn't critisize a company as large as Microsoft or that has had as many anti-trust law suites is an idiot. Microsoft has done and continues to do a lot wrong. They are still our only viable choice for an OS with the programs most people need, but that doesn't mean we have to love them or how they go about things. That alos doesn't mean other companies don't have problems too.
Adobe and Photoshop is a great example. Adobe keeps adding new features but only half-a*ses them. Features like the new Filter Gallery that is slow, a screen hog and doesn't offer opacity or blending mode controls, History with you can't save or turn in to an action and more.
All companies and programs have their faults one just needs to decide if it is a big enough problem to switch to something else. In the case of IE and how Microsoft wants to update it and support it is a big enough problem to switch.
Robert
