Topic: is it time to got back to IE?

[FPF-DieHard]

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/10/02/firefox_security_issue/

[Nemesis]

According to Secunia IE 6 still has 19 (of 106) unpatched but known problems. 

Firefox has 3 (of 36) (not counting this one) unpatched but known problems.  The noscript extension can be used to let you block javascript on any sites you don't trust. 

On the whole I consider Firefox safer and less vulnerable.  Of course you must judge for yourself.

The main thing though is like personal security you can be much safer just by watching where you travel and take precautions (such as the noscript extension) when you must travel the danger zones. 

[Nemesis]

Followup story.

Firefox Zero-Day Code Execution Hoax?

Spiegelmock, a developer at Six Apart, a blog software company in San Francisco, now says the ToorCon talk was meant "to be humorous" and insists the code presented at the conference cannot result in code execution.

Spiegelmock's strange about-face comes as Mozilla's security response team is racing to piece together information from the ToorCon talk to figure out how to fix the issue.

Mozilla security chief Window Snyder, who was an attendee at the conference, said the company is treating the claims as real until it can be verified otherwise but, as of Oct. 2, the open-source group could only reproduce a denial-of-service issue that caused a browser crash.

Diehards link now also includes an update discrediting this story.  One can only wonder at their motives.