4 July, 2004

IE Foxed

Wired gives more information about the security improvements inherent in switching from IE to Firefox.
However, I agree with Neil's slight criticism of the Wired article: 'security through obscurity' is unlikely to be a dominant factor, and slightly detracts from the other, more compelling arguments.

It's good to hear that takeup of Firefox is currently running at about 100,000 downloads per day (which doubled on the day after the US government's CERT issued its advice to totally avoid IE until further notice), and the user base apparently doubles every few months.