Things continue to look not so great with Firefox.
Many of the major websites are not yet fully Mozilla Firefox compatible. What's more, Orkut (which is loosely associated with Google) doesn't support Firefox
Some major problems that you encounter
- Text boxes are skewed
- New windows/tabs don't open as expected
- Ctrl + middle click (new tab) doesn't work
I understand, the websites to be careful to follow generic coding standards, but couldn't Firefox guys ensure that everything that runs of IE, runs the same way on Firefox
And now there is security hole
Securnia stated that the Firefox security problem was that “IFRAME” JavaScript URLs were not properly protected from being executed in context of another URL in the history list. This could have been exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user’s browser session in context of an arbitrary site.
Not that, I am giving up Firefox use because of all this. I still believe, it is a notch above IE
Hmm!
ReplyDeleteBugs do exist in all software.
However, you need to compare how fast
the fixes to IE and fixes to Firefox
is released.
In my opinion, MS rates IE holes
moderate/critical on its own and fixes
them at its will. Firefox is quick to
fix holes and plus holes are generally
less easily exploitable than IEs.
IE has had very pretty obvious holes
which should have been caught by them
in testing phase.
Firefox is new but developers have
started to recognize it. Sooner or
later most of website should be
compatible. (Infact I havent used
Windows/IE since last 8 months and
never felt any need to use them)
I am more secure and have more
knowledge of my OS/Application
are doing. Its not kept hidden
from me.
AM.