Round 5: Security and performance
Which browser do you trust?
Firefox 2
You can't surf the Web these days without fretting about online villains
eager to take your money or your identity. Which browser offers the best?
PlayerRafePeterElsaTotal
Internet Explorer 73
I have to defer to security gurus in this category. Historically I've been
impressed with how seamless installing security patches to Firefox has been.
As far as privacy, both products now let you quickly erase tracks from your
browser, which is good.4
A phishing filter within IE 7 checks the Web pages you visit using
heuristics and a whitelist of legitimate sites. IE 7 lets you clean out your
history, temporary files, and Web cookies with one button, but it's not easy
to delete specific files in those groups. Another nice browsing-security
touch is the "Web page privacy policy" feature. The past history of
exploitable security holes in IE is a factor to consider.3
At least during setup, IE 7 appears to care about security by giving you the
choice to install a phishing filter. Firefox doesn't make its security
offerings obvious during setup. Both browsers allow you to clear cookie
crumbs that show the sites you've seen, but we found such features tricky to
find within IE 7's new interface.10
Firefox 23
Firefox makes it a one-click operation, though, which is much better. On the
other hand, it's far too easy to reveal all your stored passwords in
Firefox. You can put (another) password in front of this feature, but most
people won't, leaving their passwords easily visible to anybody who gets on
to their PC.4
Also adding antiphishing measures, Firefox 2 offers a choice to check sites
from a preexisting blacklist or via Google. Firefox 2 also offers more
customization than IE 7, letting you specify which warning messages you'll
receive and allowing you to view all your cookies in a list.5
Firefox's stronger reputation for security and Mozilla's practice of
addressing vulnerabilities soon after they're discovered precedes its latest
update.12
Winner: Firefox 2
----- Original Message -----
From: Flor Lynch
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Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Internet Explorer 7
I've heardf that, in Firefox 2.0 - its latest iteration - you can no longer
disable some cookies for security purposes - that it's either disable all or
none. Comments?
----- Original Message -----
From: George Bell
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Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Internet Explorer 7
Does it still crash if you go to the main page at
http://reviews.cnet.com/
George.
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Poehlman
Sent: 24 November 2006 12:17
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Internet Explorer 7
The url in this message concerning ie and firefox causes
saffari to
ccrash. No matter whether I
launch it from the message or paste it in.
>From: Lynn Evans <[log in to unmask]>
Date: November 23, 2006 10:57:05 PM EST
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Internet Explorer 7
Reply-To: Lynn Evans <[log in to unmask]>
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Hello Jeff, George and others feeling like a stuffed turkey
on this
list:
As for I E 7 this is a major ketch up for MicroSoft. They
are adding
security features that Firefox has had for some time now.
MicroSoft has
added tab browsing. ooo!
That George Bell certainly has a way with words. The below
web site
has a
rather clever review of both browsers. The link is:
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10442_7-6656808-1.html
There are five rounds and each covers:
Round 1: Installation woes
Round 2: Look and community
Which browser looks and feels the best?
Round 3: Tabbed browsing
They both have it; who does it better?
Round 4: Cool new features
Which new feature rocks?
Round 5: Security and performance
Which browser do you trust?
The winner is...
----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Internet Explorer 7
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: Hi George, i have JFW 8 now, and downloaded it. Now, my
concern is
trying
: to get rid of JFW 7 when I go to add/remove it will just
act like
it wants
: to install. What do you all think of IE 7.0? I say so
far so
good, but
: I've only had it a day.
:
:
:
:
:
: On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, George Bell wrote:
:
: > Hi Jeff,
: >
: > There's a patch for JAWS 7 which fixes a few problems
with
: > I.E.7. Aside from that, it's much a case of suck it and
: > see.
: >
: > George.
: >
: > -----Original Message-----
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: > Sent: 22 November 2006 23:15
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: > Subject: [VICUG-L] Internet Explorer 7
: >
: > Hi everyone, I just got IE 7.0 and it appears to work
well
: > with JFW 7.0
: > I'm just curious what does this version have? Also, is
: > there anything I
: > need to do to it to make it work with JFW?
: >
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