Firefox has more security holes than any other in 2008

[Gary]

Firefox was hit by 115 security flaws in 2008, more than the combined number of its three main competitors: Internet Explorer (31), Opera (30), and Safari (32). but Zero day flaws were patched quicker than IE, I still love FF but you have to start wondering which really is the safest browser, or who has the best written code at least

[Rik]

The safest browser is the one which never connects to the web, Gary.

[Gary]

The safest browser is the one which never connects to the web, Gary.

Very true Rik, but its one hell of a lot of flaws, maybe being open source we actually get to see the real number, compared with IE and Safari, which this week one the most easily hacked browser award sadly

[Rik]

I think there will come a time where we have a sacrificial machine for browsing, reserved purely for that task.

[Gary]

I think there will come a time where we have a sacrificial machine for browsing, reserved purely for that task.

I think you could be right, Rik a separate net fodder machine would be ideal in many ways, or we could go back to pen and paper and picking up the local ads to buy second hand goods and maybe using the telephone to talk to people 

[Rik]

It's entirely possible that the net may become so hostile that that's just what we do do, Gary.

[Odos]

I think there will come a time where we have a sacrificial machine for browsing, reserved purely for that task.

Actually I already do this ( sort of  ). I have a number of different partitions set up for just one specific job. Because of the boot manager use ( BootIt NG ) no partition can see anything I don't want it to see as BootIt rewrites the MBR's of all disks attached. Which means my "general browsing" partition can only see/access just two partitions, all the other disk space is as far as that OS goes "uninitialised and unformatted"

[Sebby]

Firefox was hit by 115 security flaws in 2008, more than the combined number of its three main competitors: Internet Explorer (31), Opera (30), and Safari (32). but Zero day flaws were patched quicker than IE, I still love FF but you have to start wondering which really is the safest browser, or who has the best written code at least

But is it that Firefox had more flaws identified and fixed than Internet Explorer? I wonder...

[Rik]

Or at least ones we've been told about...