Firefox 1.5.0.2

[kiwi_2005]

Forget about IE or Firefox. Create your own browser

http://www.browserbob.com/

[Drebbel]

Originally Posted by Jesper

Update your Firefox now !! v.1.5.0.2 is a security update there are massive vulns related to java handling on all platforms http://www.mozilla.com/firefox

Better upgrade to IE7, no vulnaribilities for that one !!!!

IE7 is the best !!! Or atleast equal as terrible as FF

I stopped using FF when IE7 was released, just too fed up with the crowds yelling FF rulez and IE is *^&**&

[scandium]

Originally Posted by JonZ

For those people saying that Firefox have minors vulns than IE, think again.

Firefox IS more vulnerable than IE.

The difference is Firefox get fixed much quickier than IE.

No the difference, aside from Firefox getting fixed more quickly, IS that IE is more vulnerable. I'm speaking both from personal experience, as someone who has used Firefox exclusively for the last 3 years (back when it was still beta) and IE almost exclusive for many years before that; and also as someone who has worked for the past 18 months in tech support for one of the largest ISPs in the US and whose customers primarily use IE (as do every other ISP's simply because it is bundled with Windows).

My personal experience with IE: the last straw was a browser hijack that I was never able to remove completely until I later reinstalled the OS (at the time Windows 2000 Pro), thanks to IE's extensive hooks into the OS. My personal experience with Firefox: no browser hijacks, no spyware (beyond the usual cookies that I don't bother to block) although I only run adaware or Spybot S&D maybe every 6 months.

My professional experience with IE: I've dealt with customer's whose brandnew computers were so infested with malware, thanks to IE's extensive ties to the OS and numerous holes, that their PC had become virtually unusable (this is the extreme end but all too common all the same). With Firefox: never dealt with a spyware/malware issue where the customer was using Firefox. Of course Firefox also has a much smaller marketshare than IE, and I suspect the average user of Firefox is probably more computer savvy and less dependent on tech support, but in either case my professional experience with it matches my personal one.

[Deamon]

Originally Posted by JSLTIGER

Help--> Check for updates

I don't have such an option !

The only options in help are:

Help Contents F1
For Internet Explorer Users
Promote Firefox
About Mozilla Firefox

Deamon

[Jesper]

Again...
If updating fails, simply download the exe file from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
and run it, install over your old install.

[Syxx_Killer]

Firefox is all I use now-a-days. The straw with IE was on my old computer. It was about two years ago. Somewhere, somehow, I got a homepage hijacker. I don't visit questionable sites like warez or porn, either. I started getting popups, and even ads on webpages were changed to what the hijacker linked, too. I had Zone Alarm at the time. I couldn't run SpyBot or Adaware, or even my AV program. I used HijackThis. I was running Windows ME at the time. When I had the hijacker I noticed two running instances when I press Ctrl + Alt + Delete that I never noticed before. They were svchost and winproc32. Zone Alarm was alerting me that Windows Media Player wanted to connect to the Internet. I had used HijackThis to remove the hijacker. Curious as to why WMP wanted to connect, I let it on a hunch. My hunch was right, WMP was also infected. It redownloaded the hijacker. I removed it again. I tried to do a repair for IE at the time. I got an error. Also, when I tried to open a window, say My Computer, it was blank! Same thing for My Documents, Control Panel, etc. I had to reinstall Windows. After I reinstalled Windows, I left IE and installed Netscape 7.1 I then started using NS 7.2 when it came out. When I built my computer a year ago, I switched to Firefox. Never looked back. I only use IE for sites that need it. Some flash on some sites don't work properly. Kubota's website comes to mind. To this day, I refuse WMP connection to the Internet unless I know why it wants too (i.e. streaming video).

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Drebbel

Better upgrade to IE7, no vulnaribilities for that one !!!!

IE7 is the best !!! Or atleast equal as terrible as FF

I stopped using FF when IE7 was released, just too fed up with the crowds yelling FF rulez and IE is *^&**&

If IE7 still has active X, its still highly vulnerable.

[Drebbel]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

If IE7 still has active X, its still highly vulnerable.

I love IE, it simply works on every website, so I can use it to surf the web for 100% if the websites, something one can not say about FF.

IE works good for me, in combination with Symantec my computer is safe. I have been online for about 10 years or so and nothing bad ever happend to my system because of that. What am i doing wrong ?

And I did get my share of virus emails, visiting dodgy website and downloading infected files.