Archive for April, 2005

Ditching IE for Firefox

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

SearhcEnterpriseLinux recently interviewed John Hedkte, author of Firefox and Thunderbird Garage. John recomends against dumping IE entirely because a few sites still do not properly support Firefox. Do we really have a choice? You can’t exactly uninstall IE from Windows can you? Anyways, theres only 2 sites I recomend using IE for. The first is , the second is TrendMicrosystems HouseCall ( a activex based antivirus tool for windows).

That being said, not a single person in my family is using IE anymore. I’ve moved them all to Firefox and hid IE as best as possible. I even changed their IE icons to point to Firefox instead. 2 months later not a single complaint and I seem to get less complaints about their computers crashing.

We aren't invulnerable.

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

We aren’t invulnerable…

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Looks like firefox 1.02 has a javascript related security hole. (Security Report) So far nothing that can spread viri and spyware. Mozilla says they’ll have a patch out soon though and it looks like 1.0.3 was on its way out anyways.