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General Topics => Computer Problems & Questions, Virus/Scam Warnings => Topic started by: nichola on March 07, 2010, 18:40:36 PM

Title: How safe is your internet browser?
Post by: nichola on March 07, 2010, 18:40:36 PM

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.

Title: How safe is your internet browser?
Post by: JohnF on March 07, 2010, 22:07:31 PM

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

Title: How safe is your internet browser?
Post by: stoop on March 07, 2010, 23:07:06 PM

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

Title: How safe is your internet browser?
Post by: littlereddevil on March 08, 2010, 10:01:05 AM

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?

Title: How safe is your internet browser?
Post by: ukchris on March 08, 2010, 10:19:48 AM

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

Title: How safe is your internet browser?
Post by: littlereddevil on March 08, 2010, 10:29:18 AM

Thanks think I will give it a try

Title: How safe is your internet browser?
Post by: stoop on March 08, 2010, 11:36:04 AM

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.