Hi Rumpel,
What is that about fanboyism. Anyone that posts facts like the following information: I would suggest you keep IE updated and fully patched for reasons of the importance to your OS security, it is deeply embedded into your OS. I only use it for updating, sorry.
Why for instance refrain from clicking Blue E, enduring problems with ActiveX, a bad concept from the outset and so never taken on as global standard - Microsoft spreading killbits for it all over again at patch days because of all the instances it has been exploited. Then another issue:
This bug (one bug to rule them all) now has been fixed for Fx, SRWare's Iron, GoogleChrome, Safari, Opera.
Still vulnerable : IE5, IE6, IE7, IE8, WII, PS3, Nokia, Blackberry, Konqueror...
POC can be found here: hxtp://www.crashthisthing.com/select.html
Clicking this could bring your browser to its knees if still vulnerable...
Crashing is most easily achieved on IE, with all versions of Microsoft's browser affected.
Source of info:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/17/universal_browser_crash_bug/These are not my views or the way I like to see it, these views are distilled from facts from reliable sources online, and never brought with any bias. IE has done a lot towards better protection, but alas for the average user not enough.
Why certain people always react with irritation when something negative is reported about IE?
I am not the only one on the forums that will keep it fully patched and updated and keep it as the main browser, but actually use another browser that I can tweak better security wise and SRWare's Iron I only use for those pages that my other browsers won't render as I like. SRWare's Iron because GoogleChrome still has privacy issues I do not like. But one has all kind of users with all kinds of attitudes and likings and dislikings, there was even one that took adblocking out of Firefox, because he felt sorry for the adlaunchers that kept the web free with their income. Well, folks, I gladly will continue to use ABP, NS and RP inside Flock or Fx and block all that I do not wanna see or run inside the browser,
polonus