Washington Post: Internet Explorer, you’re fired.
Firefox is getting all kinds of attention with their official release. Even the evening news in Denmark has covered the software release. I really like this great article published by the Washington Post today. Here’s my favourite quote:
“I think anybody using Internet Explorer should switch to Firefox today. Seriously. Even if you’ve loaded every IE security update, Firefox will give you a faster, more useful view of the Web. If you haven’t — or if you use a pre-XP version of Windows ineligible for Service Pack 2’s security fixes — it would be lunacy to stick with IE.”
On security, I like this bit also:
One in particular should delight many long-suffering Web users: Firefox blocks pop-up ads automatically.
But Firefox’s security goes deeper than that. It doesn’t support Microsoft’s dangerous ActiveX software, which gives a Web site the run of your computer. It omits IE’s extensive hooks into the rest of Windows, which can turn a mishap into a systemwide meltdown.
Firefox resists “phishing” scams [define: phishing], in which con artists lure users into entering personal info on fake Web pages, by making it easier to tell good sites from bad. When you land on an encrypted page — almost no phishing sites provide this protection — Firefox advertises that status by highlighting the address bar in yellow. It also lists that page’s domain name on the status bar; if that doesn’t match what you see in the address bar, you’re probably on a phishing site.”