IE7 vs Firefox 2 - the battle heats up…
The bloggers and news sites alike are getting into the Internet Explorer 7 vs Firefox 2.0 war already.
Which is more secure? The questions really should be “should I upgrade from IE6 to IE7″ and “should I upgrade from Firefox 1.5.0.7(or earlier) to Firefox 2.0?”
The answer in either case, in my opinion, is YES.
Both are big improvements over the earlier versions, especially IE7 over the 5-year-old IE6. Sure there are safety tweaks you can make to the default IE7 settings — why would anyone think otherwise? Microsoft has a long history of pushing workability and ease of use over security.
Should you switch from IE7 to Firefox 2.0? I’ll leave that for others, for now. I’m continuing my past practice — Firefox for surfing and IE for Microsoft Updates.
Of course, for people running Windows 98, Windows Me or Windows 2000, the ONLY choice for security is to go to Firefox or Opera, since they can not run IE7 (which is only for Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server and Windows Vista beta).
ZDNet has an IE7 vs Firefox 2 blog article (probably several) but this one seems to miss the mark. It rehashes history and quotes some older security problems as if they’re current ones (Firefox 1.5.0.6? ? ? The latest was 1.5.0.7 and the current is Firefox 2.0!).