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Firefox vs. Internet Explorer: No real security winner
Published December 21st, 2007 in Browser Security, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Security
The rhetoric coming from Microsoft and Mozilla has heated up in recent days on who is doing a better job on web browser security. I’d prefer to frame the debate in terms of who is doing worse than the other because both companies have had lots of security issues with their respective browsers. Both companies have vastly improved since the days of Firefox 1.5 versus Internet Explorer 6.0. but each browser leaves much to be desired when you look at the vulnerabilities that have continued to come out.
Microsoft came out and gave a report that showed IE has fewer software flaws than Mozilla Firefox and they want us to believe this is the most important metric. Mozilla hit back saying that time-to-patch is a more important metric. Both of these metrics are important and should be debated publicly so that the user can make informed decisions. » Firefox vs. Internet Explorer: No real security winner | George Ou | ZDNet.com
