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Mozilla's popularity stressing its security image
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-09-21

The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser successfully took market share away from software giant Microsoft's Internet Explorer over the past 18 months, but has found that popularity comes with growing pains.

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Mozilla's popularity stressing its security image 2005-09-22
Paul Kosinski
I believe that Mozilla and Firefox are inherently less of a security risk than Internet Explorer for one very important reason: they are both pretty much stand-alone rather than being tightly integrated into Windows.

Internet Explorer is tightly bound to Windows in two ways (besides Microsoft's s...

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