amznVibe - 4:55 pm on Feb 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

One huge difference is with Firefox, the day an exploit is found, it will be fixed by the following day. With Microsoft, no exaggeration, it will be the next MONTH because of their strict patch release schedule. Unacceptable.

In addition, the SEO and web developer tools available with Firefox extensions blow IE out of the water. Not even close, even with favlets for IE. The recent highlighting of "nofollow" links is a classic example - IE can't do it automatically, only through a favlet (bookmarklet).

Only time I fire up IE anymore is to test if a page I just made is rendering correctly. That's about it.

And for those with the Sun Java complaints, Microsoft doesn't support or develop their Java anymore. If you are still using the last MS version, it has known exploits.

20 known UNPATCHED issues in IE:
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Check out this doozy:
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and this one:
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And just to be fair:
5 known UNPATCHED issues in Firefox:
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But note that virtually all the Firefox issues can be worked around by setting javascript to not allow changes to the titlebar or statusbar - which IE can't do. Also, none of the issues are marked above level 3 (out of 5).

Speaking of Microsoft patches, February 8th is "celebrate patch day" ;)
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[edited by: amznVibe at 5:54 pm (utc) on Feb. 4, 2005]