Some interesting new research out of ETH Zürich showed that Firefox’s Auto-Update mechanism works the best at keeping users updated with the latest and safest version compared to all other major browsers. The report, Understanding the web browser threat, used Google’s browser data from the last 18 months to figure out a lower bound [...]
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Firefox Auto-Update Leads the Pack
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Firefox · Security · Web · Web Filtering
Apple’s clandestine Safari install - we saw it coming
March 24th, 2008 · No Comments
John Lilly, Mozilla CEO, complained about the clandestine Safari 3.1 install for Windows users. I think most users with half a brain will know if they have Safari or not and if they don’t want it, they can deselect the check box. Whatever your opinion, I think that is beside the point really. [...]