How safe is your internet browser?

[nichola]

http://tech.uk.msn.com/microsoft/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=152195504

Thought this was useful info to know and if you read to the end you'll see how your browser fares according to an independant study.

[JohnF]

Not that independent unfortunately - NSS labs were paid by Microsoft to carry out these tests so its not surprising that their clients browser fared better than its competitors.

JF

[stoop]

Firefox is OK for me. Used it for some time now with little trouble.

[littlereddevil]

I have IE8 and find it pretty crap when used with vista. I am thinking of going to firefox.Did contemplate google chrome but have heard firefox is better?

[ukchris]

firefox keeps itself up to date as well, it upgrades when you launch it approx once a month. I find it runs much quicker than IE. A word of warning though, some websites don't like firefox. www.goldtrail.co.uk used to just come up as the raw page coding, now it works so I presume it has been updated to work with firefox.

You can still use IE anyway if you run into a problematic site with firefox

[littlereddevil]

Thanks think I will give it a try

[stoop]

Only problem I have with Firefox is when I'm updating a website that I look after. When I want to put the £ sign it comes up as AA instead. Tried lots of ways to sort it but in the end I just go back to using IE for that particular site.

I still find FF much faster than IE though.