Firefox less secure?

There was a security report indicating that Firefox allowed twice as many security breeches than Internet Explorer. So now people are taking arms against Firefox, saying that it is less secure than IE. Now…if the numbers in the link are accurate, that's a hell of a lot of security issues for Firefox. Bad thing. But let's take a step back. Internet Explorer has been in existence for more or less a decade now. Firefox was officially launched by the Mozilla foundation in late 2004, with two years of beta and alpha work on the browser. Less time released generally means more bugs to work out, as with any new software release. I'm not surprised if Firefox had more security flaws. But, how many of those are exploited? IE has been a breeding ground for hackers and virus gurus, just loving the fact that the browser is tied into the Windows operating systems (hence, why you can't uninstall the damn thing). When you view the drives of your computer, you're viewing it through IE. It's kind of like the glass of the window. You look out and the world can look in. Read about the most recent worms or viruses that made national headlines and they all come from IE security flaws, which have been exploited. Firefox hasn't really had such media attention, probably because it tends to takes care of problems before they occur.

In the little-under one year Firefox has been released, it has released more patches and security updates than Microsoft has in the near 4 years IE 6 has been available. 4 years?! And we're still on IE6?! Microsoft churns out their Office suite faster than that! Bottom line is that Firefox is still the way to go if you want clean and considerate browsing. The pop-up blocker is first-rate and easy to configure. The security features make sense. It's not like Microsoft's security center, which blocks its own browser (shoulda taken a screenshot of that…). The bugs in Firefox will dwindle at a faster rate simply because the software is open-source and more than a handful of people work on it. You can bet on a number of new security updates and patches from Mozilla for their flagship browser…keep 'em comin'! In Firefox I trust!