I quit Netscape with v4.61 after it became an AOL product. I never installed it and I never will. As for Mozilla, the last 5 or 6 versions I've installed all crashed on the first run (usually within the first 5-10 seconds) including RC1 which I had hoped would be vastly improved. It wasn't. I usually uninstall and forget any software that crashes on the first run but I keep trying it again in the hope that they will eventually get it right. (BTW I am running Win2k Pro here and it is rock solid. My system never crashes and none of my applications crash except for 3 apps which aren't Win2k compatible.) Now I realize that Mozilla is still in beta (alpha really) but good grief! It ought to run more than 5 seconds at a time! Having said that I would find it hard to believe that Mozilla isn't actually bristling with security holes. After all, what is a vulnerability but an exploit run against a code bug?
As for IE, you guys probably won't agree but it seems to me that IE is full of security *patches*. 10000+? That's a bit of an exaggeration isn't it? Last count I heard was 14 unpatched security holes.
http://jscript.dk/unpatched/I think that all browsers have security holes. IE, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla - ALL of them. If IE appears to have more holes then isn't that just an evident token of the fact that the vast majority of researchers studying these things spend most of their research effort looking for ways to exploit IE? A lot of people hate MS a with a passion you know. If these researchers spent an equal amount of time and effort trying to break and exploit the other browsers then they might find just as many holes, perhaps more and they might not get patched as quickly.
Look at it this way, if I did a study in your neighborhood to determine whose yard has the most litter, and upon completion of my study I reported to the newspapers that *your yard* was by far the trashiest, wouldn't you and your friends in the neighborhood take issue with those findings if I had spent 95% of my time meticulously scouring your yard for even the tiniest piece of litter and the remaining 5% in the other yards? What if I arrived with a whole team of independent garbage analysts and all of us decided to scour your yard only leaving just a few to examine the other yards in your neighborhood? Wouldn't you think we were being biased? Would you question our findings? Of course you would.
So IE is a very good browser. Opera is a very good browser. As for Netscape, it's dead, and I see Mozilla as nothing more than a frantic effort to resuscitate a flat-liner. Just my 2 cents.
