Hi Logos,
If I can find the time for it, I will post about these issues extensively. Just a short simple survey of the main points. One has to touch a subject why NoScript could never be brought as by default to any browser. The opposing vision of browser developers and ad-launchers versus the security aware (recent XSS issue putting IE at risk), The active-X issue (321 issues last year alone for IE)_that is still haunting us as to this day. BHO's that can be a real pain in the neck and could come with spyware attributes. RequestPolicy a way to block browser requests that has never made it to IE, GoogleChrome (a browser that was not even developed further to trim and tweak security and privacy wise, but just to serve as a Google ad-serving and user-tracking apps from the outset), etc. etc. Platform related issues,. like Win98 could not have anything beyond IE6, XP not anything beyond IE8, then you are urged to switch to Win7 (forget about Vista like we did about ME). Did another non-Windows platform ever have these issues, I ask you earnestly? And a lot of general security and safety issues: certification issues that were not resolved. HTML-5 versus Flash that never hit common ground with various browsers. And this litany can go on and on. The web being riddled with sites that will infect through the browser,
polonus