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12-11-2005, 12:34 PM,

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Target Firefox

Quote:Another Firefox article:

This year will almost certainly go down in Web history as the Year of the Firefox. The open-source browser ended up the greatest beneficiary of the barrage of bad press aimed at Microsoft Internet Explorer and its various security vulnerabilities. With the ever-present threat of spyware, it's little surprise that so many users have made the switch to what is now widely considered to be the "safe" Web browser, at least compared with IE.

Alas, "safe" is relative...

As of October, there are approximately 86 known security vulnerabilities targeting IE 6.x users and 25 facing those running Firefox 1.x,...

full article: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,,1892675,00.asp

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