More on the Relative Safety of IE vs. Firefox
ZDNet has been carrying a series of discussions by George Ou and others on the relative safety of the two most popular browsers. Unfortunately, I find the discussion by Ou to be a poor way of looking at the security issue. His analysis has been partly answered by one of the Firefox authors Blake Ross in an interview. In response to Ross’ s comments, Ou has modified his original contention about the relative lack of safety in Firefox and now says the rather wishy-washy “The bottom line is that we have some mixed results where either browser camp can claim victory.” However, Ou continues with his numerology and ignores many of the complex issues involved. I still think that the question of which brower is safer should be addressed in the context of who is using it. (See this article).