Firefox: Flawed?

Question

Do you think Firefox is very flawed?

Answer 1

Here are the problems
- Website that is displayed improperly, does not follow the W3 standards. Firefox does.
- Website utilizes ActiveX, that's the good part, FireFox does not. In this case, use Internet Explorer

You see, FireFox is the free standard to go by when designing a website. The whole internet is built around the w3 standards, and not a private company like Micrsoft, Sun Microsystems, AOL or other company.

Answer 2

Very flawed, no. Does it have a major flaw that isn't yet fixed, yes.

There is a problem in the way FF handles javascript, that the developers are looking into. The hackers that discovered it claim that it is not patchable, but judging by the way they revealed the issue and have handled everything, it sounds like they have an agenda.

Is it more flawed than the other browsers out there? For the most part, no. Opera may be more secure than FF, but it hasn't gotten much attention so there may be flaws that haven't been discovered yet. IE is horribly flawed, so much so that finding a new bug in IE is like finding fish in a pond.

There is no such thing though as a perfectly secure program. There will always be flaws and exploits. (except maybe in a "hello world" program).

To help the person above about the password security, you have the option, when you first save a password, and afterwards through the privacy controls you mentioned, to set a "Master password." Once you create this, you have to enter this master password to access any saved password. This is then saved for the entire session (as long as you have a browser window open) and you won't have to re-enter it, but it does prevent someone from starting up your computer and having full access to all of your accounts immediately.

Answer 3

They just came out saying there is a huge flaw in Firefox that will allow a hacker to take control of your computer, and it is going to require a huge rewrite of the javascript engine in Firefox.

On that note, you would have to be crazy to use IE.

Answer 4

I agree with the other two:

But the biggest flaw I ever saw in Firefox that actually gave me the chills....

When you go to your privacy content, and if you happened to save passwords or so in password fields, you can see that Firfox actually displays the passwords with its respective IDs.... Isn't that crazy...

It's like, if you used your hotmail/yahoo account on someone else's computer thru Firefox, and they have that option open, you are busted! The person can go to their content history and check out your password anytime!!!

Freaky, isn't it!

Answer 5

No browser will ever be safe from everything. As soon as they release a version, the hackers think of something and as soon as they fix that, the hackers think of something else. Firefox is no exception, and yet it has fewer ways than other browsers for hackers to exploit, and it is in general one of the most secure browsers out there.

Answer 6

When was this annouced?