tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21367055.post114169899872753352..comments2023-11-05T05:15:29.383-05:00Comments on graphicallyspeaking: Firefox v. IE: an AOL View, pt 2Sree Kotayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637645734999157782noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21367055.post-1141841973802896662006-03-08T13:19:00.000-05:002006-03-08T13:19:00.000-05:00You're right, of course. They would have been saf...You're right, of course. <BR/><BR/>They would have been safer still had they gone to Opera - perhaps you should encourage them to do so.Sree Kotayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01637645734999157782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21367055.post-1141838062683049192006-03-08T12:14:00.000-05:002006-03-08T12:14:00.000-05:00Well, the way we got to tens of millions of users ...Well, the way we got to tens of millions of users is because people had *huge* problems with spyware, drive by downloads with IE. Their computers were a mess and ridiculously slow or compromised. Many folks including US CERT are recommending Firefox (implicitly). <BR/><BR/>Firefox isn't immune to security vulnerabilities we know that http://www.mozilla.org/security/security-announcement.html<BR/>but we're able to respond a little bit faster likely because we're not tied to the OS. Ability to respond and time to respond is pretty important. You can count vulnerabilities all day, that only kinda matters.<BR/><BR/>Also, go ahead and throw your (entire) user base at us. We have the same number of users you do (not more than AIM but almost double than dial-up). A percentage of your users use either stand alone IE or Firefox now anyway. Probably 5-8% of your users are using Firefox today. Yes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com