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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 04:34 AM
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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 04:42 AM
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as soon as hackers deem firefox users targets, you'll see more of these updates.
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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by e3NiNe
as soon as hackers deem firefox users targets, you'll see more of these updates.
:werd: Everyone should go back to IE. Lets not make Firefox popular. h:
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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by e3NiNe
as soon as hackers deem firefox users targets, you'll see more of these updates.
Not entirely.

IE isn't one of the biggest security flawed products ever just because it's popular. It's got a very poor design and structure.

Plus, one of the benefits that FF has is that it's source is open. Anyone can freely download the code that it's made from to look for flaws that way. You can't do that with IE and yet IE still has more flaws than FF.
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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 10:15 AM
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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 10:44 AM
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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 10:46 AM
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# of vulnerabilities left unpatched in Firefox < # in IE
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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 11:47 AM
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for the record, i like firefox. i just can't stand when fanboys dribble this nonsense that it's absolutely invulnerable to everything, much the same way those fanboys claim that such and such OS is rock solid. given the complexity of today's software, it's virtually impossible.
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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 03:31 PM
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firefox just crashed on me.. :chuckles: case and point..

i think i'll upgrade to 1.0.1 now.
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Old Mar 4, 2005 | 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by janiVI
# of vulnerabilities left unpatched in Firefox < # in IE
# of hackers working on Firefox < # on IE
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