Is Firefox the new target for hackers?

Posted by Herschel_Cohen on Dec 8, 2005 9:00 PM EDT
PC Magazine Nov. 30, 2005 (seems online); By Dan Dinicolo 		Mail this story
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This year will almost certainly go down in Web history as the Year of the Firefox. The open-source browser ended up the greatest beneficiary of the barrage of bad press aimed at Microsoft Internet Explorer and its various security vulnerabilities. With the ever-present threat of spyware, it's little surprise that so many users have made the switch to what is now widely considered to be the "safe" Web browser, at least compared with IE.

[ED: For a PC Mag. quite balanced - flaw that entered via Firefox that lands only in IE (open or closed) is not seen by the author as a Firefox flaw, blames Active X and Java plus users going to the wrong sites-HC]

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