Is the Firefox honeymoon over?

Firecat · Sep 26, 2005

The point is, security risks will always be there! IE may load pages better, Firefox may be faster, and Opera safer....sum up all the good and bad points of each browser, and they seem pretty much in the same league (at least in my experience)....

fireflux · Sep 26, 2005

JRCATES said:

A few months back I said that as Firefox's POPULARITY increased, so would the amount of malware attacks (exploiting vulnerabilities) targetting it. A lot of folks seemed to operate under the belief and/or assumption that Firefox was DESIGNED better, and that it was a more secure browser. Hard to argue that point....and so I didn't (and I still agree that it is probably more secure currently). BUT....my main point of emphasis was that MARKETSHARE would dictate who malware authors went after - plain and simple. And since Firefox has evolved into a serious browser worthy of attention and have made the largest gains in marketshare in the browser category, apparently they have received some rather unwanted and undesirable attention - that of malware authors. But rest assured....whichever browser gains in popularity and dictates marketshare will always be the one more directly under attack. As Mozilla's marketshare increases...very likely so will the vulnerabilities and number of attacks. Just like as Microsoft's marketshare decreases....so will the likelihood and number of occurences of it's vulnerabilities being exploited. Basic supply and demand theory being executed and enacted in the software and computing world.....
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Again. The severity is more important than the quantity.

ErikAlbert · Sep 26, 2005

fireflux said:

Again. The severity is more important than the quantity.
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I second that.

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