Very awesome Java

[Ezekiel]

Interesting discussiong.



You underestimate malware. I help out in several security forums and I can tell you that malware can and will compromise computers. It seems stupid really because people think having an AV and a firewall is the solution. Yet they don't bother to update Windows with the latest service packs and patches - this leaves the system wide open to infection regardless of the browser in use.

There are lots of reasons why different browsers are better but what if a user doesn't have an AV, firewall, up-to-date computer with all patches their system will get infected. No browser can prevent this.

If you want to enhance your online browser security then I would keep the browser you like but simply run it in Sandboxie or on a VM. That way everything is contained.

IF you don't then the best advice would be to keep everything updated, have a good AV and firewall, install all patches and be careful in which sites you visit. I know its sometimes not easy to tell whether sites are bad or not without visiting them but there are ways round this: SiteAdvisor, Link checker: [url]http://linkscanner.explabs.com/linkscanner/[/url]

I personally use FireFox because I like the features: add-ons to allow most things e.g. view IE pages in FF, ability to customise things more easily and tabbed browsing.

Just out of curiosity Syntax****** - how about creating a poll to see what browser people prefer. If you made this a separate thread you can then maybe ask people to put the specific reasons why they choose that browser e.g. tabbed browsing. It would be interesting to see whether people did it for certain reasons or just the layout or something.

Well my point was every browser is going to have vulnerabilities, so we should decide on the overall functionality of it rather than immunity to bugs.

Attention all readers of this thread: I have created a poll in a separate thread for everyone to submit their favorite browser and why.