Changing of the Guard
What great news for this Friday the 13th: IE’s market share slips below 90%! I guess that is what you get when your newest browser is at least four years old. It’s no surprise, really. After all, it sometimes takes Microsoft months, and in a few instances, a year or more, to release critical patches for its browser. On the other hand, last weekend, three new vulnerabilities were discovered in Firefox. By Thursday, they were already pushing the bugfix out to users. Talk about a fast reaction. Microsoft could never turn out a patch in four to five days. Instead, they would have you wait for their monthly update release schedule, and even then, there would be no guarantee that the bug will be fixed. And the best thing to look forward to is that come v1.1 of Firefox, there will be an actual patching system implemented, so you won’t have to make a 4.5+ Mb download to get every bugfix. So, in conclusion, join the browser revolution by choosing the most secure, most extensible, most feature rich solution on the market: Mozilla Firefox. After all, I still have yet to have someone visit my website using Firefox, except me, of course.
