ACHHHOOOOOO. sorry im allergic to c**p. and the is the biggest pile of c**p ive ever read. lets blaim browsers for problems with a plugin... its not even a problem, it quite clearly asks you if you want to install the spyware what kind of person clicks yes to that? and with the pop ups thing.... plagued?! ive only seen a couple since ive been using it... back when it was 0.2 or something like that. Sorry IE fanboy back to the drawing board

This article could have been written by Bill himself. I don't know of what users the Microsoft Fan Club speaks, but if you allow something to install when given the option to not install it, it's your own fault. I personally never (and don't recall seeing anyone else) gave IE flak for situations that require user consent, it's the parasiteware that installs without user consent that bothers me. As for the so called "vulnerability", it's a feature of Flash, not of Firefox, and they provided the option to disable it (which is more than any other popular Windows browser that I can think of). Apparently not psychically knowing the intent of the content author is "bad programming", and "no programming" is a much better option. Obvious bias, and the chip on the author's shoulder aside, the best thing about Firefox in my eyes is not that fact that it's "not IE", as the author would likely have you believe is the sole reason most Firefox users love it, but because it's a good browser with a solid framework that exceeds that of IE, and on top of that, it has probably the best extensions interface of any browser, allowing third parties to create such must have things as AdBlock, All-in-one Gestures, Tab Mix etc etc etc. The browser feels a little naked on a clean install, but taking 5 minutes to install some extensions and a skin or two shows that Firefox is the clear leader in the field. On a closing note, why is it that the vocal IE users that "hate" Firefox (not that they've likely given it a chance, or even installed it in many cases) accuse Firefox users of constantly bashing their beloved IE? It's my experience that Firefox users are secure and content in the knowledge that they have made the right choice, and it's that vocal minority of the IE lovers that seem to have a need to put other browsers, and their users down, obviously to reinforce their faltering faith in the all knowing and benevolent Microsoft.

Urm.. I think we have two Firefox fan boys here, .. read the report properly and you see there are vunerabilities in FireFox. So get off your own soapbox's and stop the childish slanging match IE is so bad, firefox rules.. Both browsers have vunerablilities, why not try helping the community :-p Muppets !

as far as i can see after reading the report that when a user vists a site a java applet is run... makes sence since java is fairly common on the internet. this java application ask if you wish to install some spyware on your machine... yes... or no..., well i dont know about others but i tend to click no in these circumstances. the pop up thing is hardly an exploit in the web browser. its down to the plugin again, flash scripting allows you to create windows (pop-ups). if you dont have either plugin installed/enabled... then neither of the "exploits" will work. the reason i use firefox is because of its extensions, if you disable activex in ie then yes you lock that browser down pretty secure aswell, but its still very lacking in standards support and features

See what I mean? A couple of people question the bias of this report and the legitimacy of it's claims, and the Microsoft Fan Club crawl right out from under their rocks and start the name calling. Well, you've convinced me guys, It's IE for me all the way now!

Yes, I read the report in full, perhaps you should try reading the comments in full, and don't response unless you understand the big words.

The reactions here are funny. Articles like this have been appearing on IE for some time. Why the horror at Firefox getting done in the same way? Firefox ain't perfect, but what browser is. What's more important is are the developers actually taking articles like this isn't consideration & making the necessary changes, e.g. adding an option regarding flash pop-ups into the option menu say. As can be seen/inferred in the article though, Firefox does have some advantages over IE when it was in that situations - Extensions. Adblock is excellent for getting rid of "bad" sites, while this FlashBlock can help as well. Similarly if you don't need Java support then just remove the sun java plugin! That takes care of much of the issues raised here

The point is, if this were an Internet Explorer problem (& it has been), Microsoft would be damned for not fixing the "problem" as it requires too much user interaction to be their fault. So why should this condemning somehow not apply to Firefox? Most PC users are idiots on the subject, they DO need to be protected for their own ignorance about this.

I kinda prefer Crazy Browser myself these days. That with Ad Muncher is pretty tight.