Firefox, RSS, Weather. . .all good things come to non IE users.

[Pianomahnn]

Firefox (http://www.getfirefox.com) seems to be an up and coming bling bling web browser. I've been using it ever since renounding Microsoft as my god and moving to mandrake linux.

Not only is Firefox a nice browser, but because of its open source nature, it has a multitude of exceptional (and not so) addons (http://update.mozilla.org/?application=firefox).

I've installed a few addons; weather bar, media player, irc dealie. The coolest thing is Sage, an RSS feed addon. RSS is excellent. Anyone who doesn't partake in RSS is a fool.

In conclusion, me > *, unless you already do things like me, in which case I'm still > you but not as much so. :p

[skalie]

guess someone just got laid

[Pianomahnn]

Far from it. I did wack off yesterday, though.

[Billyman]

I’ve been running Firefox for a little while now also. I do like it but I’m still running into issues here and there that I have to deal with and fix. Something’s will not open or run in Firefox and I’ll switch over to IE and have no problems. I’m sorting through that stuff all though some of it has me baffled.

The great Sauron once ranted and raved about it and its security. ‘Bout how you don’t have to have anti-virus protection or things like Ad-Aware and so forth. I think his words were “you don’t need them”. HA!!!! BULLFUCKING SHIT!!! I can run my Ad-Aware any given day and it’ll find shit. My AVG finds shit all the time. I’ve had to remove 4 Trojans (that I got through Firefox) since I’ve been using it. All my security settings are almost maxed out on Mozilla and still shit gets through.

When someone tells you they’ve never had “any problems”……it’s because they have nothing on their computer to detect those problems.

Outside that, I really do like the browser.

[Pianomahnn]

Perhaps its a windows related problem. We all know windows isn't very secure.

I'm running linux, but have no idea if my shits fucked up. I'd like to think it's not.

[Billyman]

Perhaps its a windows related problem.

That is a possibility no doubt. But I swear to you, of everything I’ve ever read and still read, those that do not have any added “detection or protection” services (regardless of what they’re running) on their comps always say “they are secure”. And they’ll say this right on up to the point where they download and install some of these services and find out they weren’t as secure as they thought they were.

[Pianomahnn]

Ignorance is bliss. :D

[sauron]

The great Sauron once ranted and raved about it and its security. ‘Bout how you don’t have to have anti-virus protection or things like Ad-Aware and so forth. I think his words were “you don’t need them”. HA!!!! BULLFUCKING SHIT!!! I can run my Ad-Aware any given day and it’ll find shit. My AVG finds shit all the time. I’ve had to remove 4 Trojans (that I got through Firefox) since I’ve been using it. All my security settings are almost maxed out on Mozilla and still shit gets through.

I'm pretty sure I was referring to Linux when I said you don't need anti-virus stuff - not just mozilla. (I know it wasn't firefox - I don't like it, and don't use it.)

I use a text-only email reader, that doesn't almost-auto-open attachments, I've made quite sure all my servers are quite well locked down - and I have some automation in place (that runs hourly) which tells me if something suspicious has happened...

I've never "had any problems" - and it's not because I don't have anything to detect them....


- d.

[MAC]

I know a guy, who, for most of the last year has been running firefox and thunderbird and NO antivirus. He runs spybot once a week or so and it occasionally catches something but if he keeps the temp folders cleaned out it's pretty rare.

Just because something is labled a "virus" or a "trojan" doesn't mean it's some hacker-ware designed to crash your computer.

[Billyman]

Thanks for clearing that up Sauron. The info you had given before was a either a bit vague about what you were using or my memory escapes me on all the info you had given.

And Mac, a Trojan isn’t going to “harm” your comp period. But when you get one and start being flooded with spam (not a big problem with Thunderbird I know) you’ll wish you didn’t have it and if you don’t know you have it, you wonder where all this junk mail is coming from.

Even if a spam filter filters it all out, I don’t feel comfortable knowing that someone else has access to the info on my computer. A Trojan is an “open door” and that’s why it’s put there. Ask anyone that makes them for companies.

[Koliedrus]

Secunia (http://secunia.com/) has issued a rating for IE as:
Extremely critical
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in Internet Explorer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system, conduct cross-site/zone scripting and bypass a security feature in Microsoft Windows XP SP2.

Firefox is also getting holes punched in it but so far the detected vulnerabilities don't include version 1.0.

Fortunately, the open-source community will come to the rescue without having to wade through as much red tape as the corporate.

Unfortunately, a lot of apps and the hardware used to run them aren't even compatible with SP2 so the holes that have been patched can't be closed quickly enough on a corporate level because of foot-dragging and budgets.

For personal use, Firefox is still your best bet.

[skalie]

Fuck IE, locks up my shitty computer at random, firefox = better, skalie = agreeing with pianowhore, considers virtual suicide.