LXer: IE more secure than Firefox/Chrome

LXer · 03-21-2009, 08:40 PM

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IE8 could be more secure than firefox and chrome, just because there's more speed in the execution of javascript in the new firefox and chrome browsers. While IE is only optimized for popular pages (rendering) I'm sorry but this smells like FUD.

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jschiwal · 03-21-2009, 10:26 PM

How does not being optimized translate to more secure?

craigevil · 03-22-2009, 12:54 AM

According to Securnia there were more bugs in Firefox last yr than in IE. However more bugs were fixed in Firefox and at a quicker rate than IE. With most of the bugs being zero day exploits that were fixed in a matter of days after being found.

While there are still major bugs with IE that have been there for yrs.

Microsoft can come up with all of the FUD they want, the open source browsers are still better and faster than IE.

John VV · 03-22-2009, 02:32 AM

Bug counts WTF those are the reported bugs .So let's see ff reports ALL bugs and MS reports ONLY the ones that others have found ( none ,0,nada,zip that MS finds)
you do the math