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Old 06-17-2006, 08:53 PM   #1
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What is the most secure browser?


Ive been looking and Firefox seems the most popular but seems to have the most problems with security, Is Opera or Mozilla more secure than Firefox. Of the three, Mozilla seems the most stable but I dont know about security.
Thank you for any input.
 
Old 06-17-2006, 09:08 PM   #2
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try the NoScript extension, or disable javascript, it seems to be the most prevalent evil on malicious websites nowdays...
 
Old 06-17-2006, 09:24 PM   #3
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firefox has the most problems with security? according to whom? Opera is a perfectly fine browser as well. Haven't heard much about security problems with it.
 
Old 06-18-2006, 07:31 AM   #4
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i agree boredandblogging, Firefox does not give me any problems, then i just surf to knwn safe websites like slashdot, freshmeat, linuxquestions, google for searches, but i do reccomend NoSCript so websites and domains that you trust can be allowed to run javascript and unknown sites are not...
 
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Mozilla isn't being worked on anymore, so any bugs that are found won't be fixed. SeaMonkey is a new project that uses the Mozilla code.

You can check Secunia to see the number of open and resoved vulnerabilities in each browser.
 
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Wow! I just looked in the Secunda site. I. Explorer 6 has 27 unpatched or partial fixes.
 
  


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