Microsoft's Peter Torr Attacks Mozilla Firefox Security

http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=5808

Torr's original comments and reactions to them on his blog site:

http://blogs.msdn.com/ptorr/archive/2004/12/20/327511.aspx

I'm running two copies of XP, and on one of them I want to install Firefox. One of the issues that came up in the above references if I'm reading it correctly, is guestionable download sources for the software. I'm sure you guys can steer me to the right one.

Regards - Charles

 

Charles,

I say piffle! Mozilla.org most certainly is a trusted site, but I do agree that the University site could have been questionable. Of course the man is going to trash Firefox, as it is catching on at a very fast pace, and could be serious competition for IE...

If you want to ensure that you have a legitimate download of Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox, or Thunderbird, then download from these sites:

Firefox
Thunderbird
Netscape
Mozilla

Ramona

 

Thanks Ramona, will do.

Happy New Year,

Charles

 

There is some truth about the extentions, which are optional. However, they say that their site is trusted. I often am in disbelief. How do I know who they are, because they say so? Essentially, Microsoft sets the rules, and if one does not abide by the rules must be wrong.
As a rule of thumb, nothing can be trusted, and, it is best to stay offline. And, I , almost, believe this.

 

Charles ...

Extensions and themes are entirely optional ... and, for me, the fewer the better. I use Firefox's default theme and only three extensions, each of which provides enhancements to FF that I find particularly useful:

Tabbrowser Extensions (TBE) adds many features to FF's already good tabbed browsing capabilities.

PrefBar also has many features, but the best (and the only one I use) is the ability to turn off the background colors and/or wallpaper that makes some sites difficult to read. PrefBar's "Useragent Spoofer" didn't work for me, so I use Launchy.

Launchy lets you load a page which doesn't adhere to W3C standards in another browser of your choice (default is IE, of course).


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Thanks Jim,

Kind of guidance I was hoping for.

Regards - Charles