Pros and Cons of Firefox Critically Evaluated?

A Dafa Disciple writes "Fred Langa of Information Week has written an article claiming to discuss the 'Pros and Cons of Firefox'. At first I was excited because I thought I was going to get to finally read an enlightening, in-depth article that critically examined the browser. I should have known better. Aside from the usual criticism of open source software, it contains a reference to a Symantec Internet Security Report which claims that more security vulnerabilities in the last six months of 2004 were found in Firefox than IE. I'll leave it to you to analyze Mr. Langa's opinion and scrutinize Symantec's study and reputation as a security software developer."

Sorry but...

[hanssprudel]

At first I was excited because I thought I was going to get to finally read an enlightening, in-depth article that critically examined the browser.

And I thought my life was dull. You need help my friend. Now!

A few good (pieces of software)

[Lead Butthead]

"You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has (fire) walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with (antivirus software.) Who's gonna do it? You? ... I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for (FireFox) and you curse (Microsoft.) You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that (IE6.0 vulnerabilities,) while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don't want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that (fire) wall."

Quick summary

[nizo]

Pros: It isn't explorer*
Cons: It isn't explorer**

*potentially more secure
**some pages don't render right since some people only test with explorer

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[Chicane-UK]

You've got whats coming to you if you just copy and paste, and then run random code that you found on the internet quite frankly.

A beautiful and smart woman

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn, she's hot [timeinc.net] and smart too.

google

[khujifig]

They haven't got our inside leg measurements yet.

Actually, I'd better check...

Re:A few good (pieces of software)

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you order the CodeRed?

Re:The biggest downside to Firefox

[EclipceNet]

They should check the patent office before they do this. Microsoft probably has a patent on it already.

If they don't the folks at Mozilla could consider getting one. I mean everyone is doing it. ;)

Can't RTFA

[Monoman]

Too funny. I read the first page of the article using Firefox. None of the subsequent page links work. IE works fine.

I guess I will miss it.

Re:Enlightening...

[Just Some Guy]

I could give my five year old daughter a stack of printouts detailing vulnerabilites found by group XYZ, and in a second she can tell you which stack was bigger and might even count them out if she felt inclined to.

My five year old daughter could prioritize them by severity and likelihood of exploit, add in a few of her own, and generate a patch that fixes them on the three most common platforms. What lame school are you sending your kids to?

Re:The biggest downside to Firefox

[mph]

If you're the sort of person who can live without Flash entirely, it's a very welcome extension.

If you can live without Flash entirely, why not use the Don't-Install-Flash-In-The-First-Place extension?

Re:The biggest downside to Firefox

[hesiod]

> Firefox's "install" consists of one directory.

Pshaw, don't be so naive! You also have to create a shortcut, which is half of the install!

Re:The biggest downside to Firefox

[S.O.B.]

You also have to create a shortcut

Well that just blows your TCO. Better go back to IE.

Re:Mr. Langa is a conversational terrorist

[SenorChuck]

You're new here, aren't you?

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.. I couldn't help myself!

Re:Quick summary

[GreatDrok]

**some pages don't render right since some people only test with explorer

Oddly enough, IE doesn't render any of the pages I go to correctly. Large numbers of them have these little flashing irritating images that Firefox/Adblock doesn't have. Until IE can render the web properly I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to use it. Microsoft really needs to buck up their ideas, how can anyone read a web page when the text is obscured and broken up with these images that constantly get in the way of the information. I don't understand what MS is doing wrong but their browser does a terrible job of rendering web pages.

Re:The biggest downside to Firefox

[hendridm]

I never thought I'd see the day where someone on Slashdot complained that Firefox isn't bloated enough.

+5 Ironic

[Anonymous Coward]

Grandparent:

Subject: The biggest downside to FireFox
Comment: Is all the plugins, extensions, chrome, files, and settings...

Parent:

Comment:

this extension should be useful :

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[Just Some Guy]

Too sharp? No. Jumps out of the drawer, crawls across the house, and pulls itself up onto my bed and against my neck before accidentally waking me? I think I'd have to take that into consideration.