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Title: firefox users
Post by: stevegunn on January 01, 2005, 06:30:45 pm

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20453

I tried it and it works. Another reason to dump IE.

Also worth a read is .....


http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=55801278

Title: Re: firefox users
Post by: Mark Roberts on January 01, 2005, 07:19:12 pm

And with so many people working on Firefox , it will only get better.
Here's hoping microsoft go under sometime soon. ;D

Mark

Title: Re: firefox users - Warning
Post by: Dennis on January 08, 2005, 09:18:08 am

For your info

http://nl2.vnunet.com/news/1160352

Title: Re: firefox users
Post by: Mark Roberts on January 08, 2005, 11:28:45 pm

Firefox 0.91, 0.92 and 0.93 were released to fix security bugs .... its impossible to make a perfect anything  frankly, anyone who is still using IE is nuts ..... and using IE without the newest version of IE installed (winxp/sp2) .... is looking for trouble, it is bad that M$ has basicaly stoped all security fixes for IE unless you are using winxp/sp2, so at this time the other 48% of the window users who are NOT using Window XP are screwed!!!!
To fall victim to such a scam, a Firefox user would have to click on a link in an email that pointed to a spoofed Web site and then download malware from the site, something I would avoid anyway.

Actually, I would not be surprise to see a 1.01 release soon to fix this problem (mid Jan??) or maybe they will decide to wait until firefox 1.1 is released in march ....

Also, if you read a little more from those folks ... IE still has the largest number of security bugs that are still waiting for M$ to fix, even if you are using IE with winxp/sp2 ....

IE6 ---- Currently, 21 out of 75 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
firefox 1.0 ---- Currently, 4 out of 5 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.

Title: Re: firefox users
Post by: Dennis on January 09, 2005, 11:06:16 am

I've been using it a few weeks. I like the tabs and adding extensions as you want (although I can't get the bandwidth tester to work for love nor money!)

Do you use Thunderbird for e-mail? Can't say I like that as much.

(although I can't get the bandwidth tester to work for love nor money!)
Suddenly came to me while walking the dog, Windows firewall! Works fine now.