Friday, July 08, 2005

Unknown Said...

I don't want to piss all over your techno l337 parade but Firefox is just as much a piece of dog frappe as IE.

I know, I know, you hate to bow to the almighty Microsoft. So fucking what? I can't believe, given the fact that Mozilla Firefox has more security holes than Booger's "Who Farted" t-shirt that anyone with half a brain would give me shit for using IE. At work I have no choice. I must use IE. In fact show me an office where the IT personel will even allow people to use Firefox and I will show you either the Mozilla.org offices or the dumbest IT person in Western society. IE has security holes, for sure, but they are constantly updated and fixed and if you are tech savvy enough to know what the hell Mozilla Firefox is your netowrk and your individual PC is probably secure enough that the thin scrim of extra security Firefox provides isn't really necessary. Before you start screaming about how Mozilla Firefox is so much more secure please go read up on the subject and come back once you're ready to shut the hell up. In fact Mozilla has more security holes than IE and many of them are much more frightening than anything that has existed in IE since Windows 98 and IE4. The only thing that makes Firefox more secure is that not many people use it so the people taking advantage of browser security holes aim at IE instead. The odds of success are better for them. It's the same thing that makes MacIntosh more secure. But all of that is changing. You Firefox supporters have managed to convert enough people over that it is now becoming worthwhile for nefarious black-hat wannabes to start targeting you. Now these are boutique hackers who are purposely targeting an unprotected niche but if you Mozillaheads keep converting there will be more and more of them. It's been clear, for some time, the Mozilla isn't all that secure but it never made front page news because nobody higher than the newsroom tech editor even knew what Firefox is. In fact Mozilla has been fixing these holes on the sly. They don't admit that they are there or that they have been fixed. They just encourage users to "upgrade" to the "new version." Now that's just the security aspect. The majority of my personal hatred for Firefox comes from the fact that it's a piece of shit. It integrates poorly with Windows, and this problem is heightened and exponentially increased if you have multiple users. On more than one occasion on more than one PC Mozilla Firefox just decided one day to bring up a screen concerning identities or profiles but there would be no identities or profiles. Upon continuing further I would find that all of my favorites and settings were gone; completely unrecoverable. At that point Firefox (not Thunderbird, I know the difference so shut up) would then begin to ask me to login each time I would fire it up. After searching a bit I found that this is not an uncommon problem. It seems that many people have found that Firefox, at random intervals, likes to throw a hissy fit. IE has never done that at all. It has never done anything even close. Fuck Firefox. I will use IE. At least with IE I can access content, see pages the way they are supposed to be viewed, and on and on and on. OH! HEY! You know how we all save passowrds on our home PCs even though we know we shouldn't? There are some passwords that you should not be able to save (like the one for your Microsoft Exchange Web Access at work). Did you know that if you save those passwords that should not be saveable for secuirty purposes using Mozilla they will actually be saved allowing anyone who uses your computer access? And guess what one of the absolute shittiest unfixed Firefox secuirty holes is? Somebody has all your usernames and passwords, nah nah nah boo boo.

17 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Anyone who wants to look at pictures, I would think.

11:17 AM  
Blogger EZMezzo said...

Nothing beats the mini-browser in Wipeout Pure! on the PSP! Wish they would get the damn firmware upgrade with a real browser...but then my homebrew wouldnt' work. Doh!

11:24 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Who are you, anyway?

11:25 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Nevermind, Oas. Why ask you when I can google. Also... who's knagl? You know, the bowling alley manager.

http://slashdot.org/~aoasus

11:35 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

http://fark.meetup.com/93/

Oas... Member!

11:54 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=110360&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=176&tid=97&tid=164&tid=3&mode=thread&pid=9368678#9368921


Oas.... Militant!

11:55 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/08/1531208&from=rss


Oas... Trek Fan?

11:58 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=112826&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=166&tid=14&mode=thread&cid=9563296


Oas.... Reasonable Commentator

11:59 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/31/1457226&tid=172&tid=191&tid=4


Oas... incureable smartass

12:00 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Sorry. I just posted links to the ones that made you seems gay. So there was that one I skipped over. HAHAHAHA

12:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

you two are the cuuutest couple

1:26 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah, Firefox isn't all that great. That password manager freaks me out.

2:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What is l337

3:45 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Google it.

5:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

google yourself. Hah

9:45 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I have googled myself. All it comes up with links to ezmezzo.com and the LA Forums.

11:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

that's....not how I meant it.

5:54 PM  

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