Being Fair… Should you trust Firefox…
Just so I’m not accused of siding too much for Firefox over IE - some guy from Microsoft posted this on his blog - How Can I trust Firefox?
In this article he makes some good points about trusting the code, and digitial signatures - and there’s nothing I can say in rebuttal that hasn’t already been said in the comments on his post!
Now, I use Firefox for my normal browsing (’cos of integrated RSS plugin, Tabbed browsing, popup blocking, adblock and many other things that were missing in IE (and in some cases still are) and of course the fact that it renders sites better) - however the very old and repeatedly patched code in IE (remember, IE’s about box - and this is IE6 on XP-SP2 - the latest version) says "Based on NCSA Mosiac" (I actually remember Mosaic back in around 1994), and Netscape v1 walked all over it back then!
However, no-one has yet reported a security hole in firefox where simply loading an image from a webserver can install an activeX control…
