Comments on: Microsoft: Nothing to gain from Firefox flaws

Chinks in the armor of the open-source rival to IE don't benefit anyone, Microsoft security advisor says.

Its the OS integration...

No browser is completely secure.
No browser is stable in the long run.
Right now it looks like I'll have to reinstall firefox.
It's simple.

IE is integrated with WinXp. It cant be uninstalled/reinstalled, and once it's unstable it drags your OS down with it.

Once it's unstable.....

....you fix it. If you really want to, you CAN reinstall it, but it's not (1) very advisable, since this virtually never addresses the problem, (2) a pain in the hind quarter of most people's anatomy.

Most people simply reinstall because it requires less technical knowledge despite being a much longer and painful process.

Its the OS integration...

No browser is completely secure.
No browser is stable in the long run.
Right now it looks like I'll have to reinstall firefox.
It's simple.

IE is integrated with WinXp. It cant be uninstalled/reinstalled, and once it's unstable it drags your OS down with it.

Once it's unstable.....

....you fix it. If you really want to, you CAN reinstall it, but it's not (1) very advisable, since this virtually never addresses the problem, (2) a pain in the hind quarter of most people's anatomy.

Most people simply reinstall because it requires less technical knowledge despite being a much longer and painful process.

[Roman12]

Who's fault?

It's not their fault. No piece of software is perfect, there are probably many flaws in every browser, it's just that many haven't been discovered yet.
Firefox became relatively popular in the past several months. I believe around 25% of my web site's visitors use Firefox. And this sudden gain of popularity has defiantly captured the attention of the hackers and virus writers (whatever you want to call those people). They want to affect the most people, and because such a great amount of people switched to Firefox, they began to look for flaws in Firefox to take advantage of it.
In the past, more then 90% of the people used Internet Explorer, and that's why I.E. flaws and security holes were making the news so often. A perfect browswer does not exist. So in my opinion, you would be safer with the less popular browsers.
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R.K.
http://www.Remove-All-Spyware.com/

[Roman12]

Who's fault?

It's not their fault. No piece of software is perfect, there are probably many flaws in every browser, it's just that many haven't been discovered yet.
Firefox became relatively popular in the past several months. I believe around 25% of my web site's visitors use Firefox. And this sudden gain of popularity has defiantly captured the attention of the hackers and virus writers (whatever you want to call those people). They want to affect the most people, and because such a great amount of people switched to Firefox, they began to look for flaws in Firefox to take advantage of it.
In the past, more then 90% of the people used Internet Explorer, and that's why I.E. flaws and security holes were making the news so often. A perfect browswer does not exist. So in my opinion, you would be safer with the less popular browsers.
__________________________________
R.K.
http://www.Remove-All-Spyware.com/