Why is mozilla more secure?

[Rumrunner]

Why is it more secure than IE?

 

[unhappy_mage]

No ActiveX equivalent. Nothing is installed unless you request it. There's a 3 second delay on installing extensions so you don't click on install by accident.

Basically, just made harder to screw it up. There are bugs and holes in it, but they're being worked out.

 

[lomn75]

Even more than the above, it's not part of the OS. Mozilla -- or any other third-party browser -- does not innately have permissions to rape the rest of your system.

 

[Rumrunner]

Thanks...

 

[MeanieMan]

Its also targetted less because of its small overall market %

 

[draconius]

Even more than the above, it's not part of the OS. Mozilla -- or any other third-party browser -- does not innately have permissions to rape the rest of your system.

haha thats awesome
and true

 

[KoolDrew]

No ActiveX and IE is part of Windows.

 

[locutus24]

Its also targetted less because of its small overall market %

woahh there buddy, i dont believe that to be so i seriously doubt that its hold on the market has any effect on security. Because if i was a hxr, i would definetly try and hack that just to see how easy or hard it would be. Also hxr's dont sit around thinking "Ok so lets hack something that has a big market share," I think its security relates to how it was developed, and the fact that it is not integrated with the OS.

 

[MeanieMan]

woahh there buddy, i dont believe that to be so i seriously doubt that its hold on the market has any effect on security. Because if i was a hxr, i would definetly try and hack that just to see how easy or hard it would be. Also hxr's dont sit around thinking "Ok so lets hack something that has a big market share," I think its security relates to how it was developed, and the fact that it is not integrated with the OS.

There are holes in Firefox and Mac and the people you described are the ones that usually find them.

The people that stand to make money off of problems are the ones that go after market share. IE holds over 90% of web viewing, so thats who the adware people go after. Why would you pay programmers the big bucks if its only going to effect 5-8% of people that come across it?

They are programmed differently, but that alone doesn't make one better then the other. It has a lot to do with how popular you are, who is your user base, and who stands to profit from attacking you.

The firefox user base is much much different from the IE base. So even if firefox had adware problems, do you think the average firefox user would react the same way the average IE user would?

 

[locutus24]

Got you to explain that, thank you