There are more errors in Internet Explorer than in Firefox and Opera

Technology news and updates blog article

25th March 2007

Symantec specialists who develop anti-virus software acknowledged Mozilla`s internet browser Firefox safer than Internet Explorer. By the results of discovered brittleness IE won the top place - 54 errors, Firefox - 40, Opera and browser for Mac, Safari - 4. The gap between Windows oriented browsers Opera, IE and Firefox is more than impressive. Let`s advert to the statistics: in 2006 87 holes were discovered in Internet Explorer-92. But Firefox specialists hastened to note that Mozilla releases updates for its software noticeably quicker. “There is no secure browser, said the chief director of Symantec Vincent Weafer. - If you are installing a browser, make sure that you are adapting it correctly. This is a much safer strategy than to work in some not popular browser”. Firefox updates were released in two days after the discovery of holes, while Microsoft needed about one and a half weeks to remove errors in IE. And in the second half of 2006, both companies began to spend more time when correcting new defects.