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I'm getting sick and tiered of these blind sanctimonious FireFox followers. So use it. But stop telling us IE Loyalists to switch. Oh... am just so itching... FireFox, despite its past (yup, PAST) reputation for being secure has more security holes and more vulnerabilities than post SP2 IE. And enough about the rendering, any difference is because IE and FireFox renders sites differently, kaya nga some seem faster than other... and I mean SEEM.

Basta, pagod na ako sa isang napaka-useless na usapan. Both browsers are free. So anyone is free to choose what they want. Pero, naiinis na ako sa mga makitid na utak!!!

Anyway, its nice to know that developers are now turning their back on what used to be the darling of the IT News. As I predicted, more and more FireFix vulnerabilities are now coming to light. As more and more hackers are now developing exploits for the once pride of the Open Source community.

posted on Saturday, March 26, 2005 4:45 AM by jayson

# @ Saturday, March 26, 2005 9:38 AM

I believe that they say IE has more security issues because hackers tend to target IE because of it's a majority of people use IE... now that Firefox is gaining popularity, hackers are switching hacks from IE to Firefox... I think this is where we will see how secure Firefox really is.

dukz

# @ Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:15 AM

well... we already know how unsecure firefox is

jayson

# @ Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:22 AM

Well, this blog happens to be a classic example of a flamewar bait. I use Firefox due to its tabbed windows. Unless IE7 is drastically better than FF, I will always use FF. With tabbed browsing, I am able open my categorized bookmarks into different tabs. Want to open just my online references -- OEDOnline, etymonline, etc.--? Tabbed browsing does just that. I read wikipedia pages and it helps greatly to open articles with tabs because I usually open many of them at a time. What is wrong about recommending a great alternative to IE? nothing. As for the anti-open source attitude, realize that not every one wants to pay for software and use only 10% of its features. OpenOffice.org is awesome. Don't get me wrong, I like OneNote 2003, but open source projects allow the existence of alternatives. Without alternatives, people are forced to buy uneccessary software. For example, not very many people know how to use macros, let alone know what a macro is. Also realize that not everybody is "doing it" for the money. By the way, the Open source community has several "darlings." Why not criticize them all? Criticizing one of the many "darlings" isn't really helping your argument. On top of my head, I can name several "darlings." OpenOffice.org The Gimp FireFox/Mozilla Foundation Gaim BitTorrent and Linux There are MANY other open source projects and they all provide alternatives.

jpasion

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