Browser wars renewed
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversWith the launch of Internet Explorer 8 as the latest volley in the browser wars—IE vs. Firefox vs. Google Chrome vs. Apple’s Safari—there’s a lot of talk about speed, browsing improvements and rendering engines. Where does security fit into the equation?
Frankly, when I’m evaluating browsers—I use IE, Firefox and Chrome daily—security rarely enters the picture. Apple’s Safari is the odd browser out for no reason in particular, but as hacker Charlie Miller notes Safari is the easiest to pop.
As you ponder the browsing security topic you must peruse Ryan Naraine’s interview with security researcher Miller. He’s the one who broke into a fully patched MacBook via a Safari vulnerability. Safari, Firefox and IE were all exploited this week in the Pwn2Own contest.
When it comes to browsers everyone has an opinion, but security rarely is a part of the conversation. Ed Bott talks usability for IE 8. Chris Duckett wants Canvas support for the latest IE. Others are Firefox loyalists. A growing percentage uses Chrome and naturally the Mac crowd has its Safari. Where does security fit into the equation? Will there be a day when consumers put browsing security front and center?
The lessons learned from Miller:
Safari on the Mac is an easy mark. Miller tells Naraine:
Safari on the Mac is easier to exploit. The things that Windows do to make it harder (for an exploit to work), Macs don’t do. Hacking into Macs is so much easier. You don’t have to jump through hoops and deal with all the anti-exploit mitigations you’d find in Windows.
Vulnerabilities have a market value. That means you need to ponder what browser bug could deliver the biggest bang for a malicious hacker. Miller notes that an IE bug is worth more than a Safari one.
Firefox on Windows is hard to exploit as is IE 8, according to Miller.
Google Chrome is tough to exploit because it takes a sandbox model—that’s how Chrome can keep running even though a site crashes. In other words, a site crash means Chrome just loses a tab not the whole browser. However, Miller notes that if there’s enough money on the table Chrome could be exploited.
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Comments(21)
iam lost man what you recommend now
ie6 or ie7 or firefox or apple safari
or
google chrome
i use opera : )
just ignore internet explorer like it never existed.the new firefox beta release is low
resources consumer and very fast, it launches fast and it loads websites very fats.
opera rules
its trol food this news
opera now offers turbo
opera is the best
chrome is the best hands down.
but other than chrome... anything but firefox...
firefox just makes websites look terrible!!!
chrome is simply just the best browser ever. and it has a very nice interface.
opera
opera all the way
sometimes i enjoy looking at the snorg tee girls more than reading anything else here
i find chrome to be the best. and i've tried them all.
internet explorer sux to hell with opera and sertainly screw opera this is google's
chrome with adblocker
http://blogote.com/2008/featured-article/google-chrome-with-firefox-addon.html
guy's, come on! open your eyes for the best browser on the planet - opera!
i really like to view a website as it was designed and chrome seems to do it fast.
firefox is the worse - sites look worse on it!
i tried google chrome um lets just say i dont want everything i look at to be displayed
to everyone else. + i like my addons that firefox has up the wazzoo. also ie 8, i tried it
for a day but i missed my gmail manager and my weather on my browser autoloaded and my
many themes. also i tried opera, that is one of the wierdest none compact obscure
interfaces ive seen, hah i thought it was funny that opera has a talking feature where you
can talk and it does a function...too slow and goofy. firefox is the winner.. with a
safari theme and gmail manager, and forcast fox enhanced, cooliris, and no script.
the end...
i use my command prompt as a browser and my sister has a baird
taste it. ;)
soon to be the mainstream browser... the signs are everywhere....
chrome is becoming the mainstream browser... the signs are everywhere!
google chrome all way. open source, non-sluggish, a lot more stable than the elitist
mac-lovers would like to admit, very streamlined, simple, separate tab processes,
incognito mode, and easily the best of the bunch. chrome wins.
i'm not too
bothered about whether it becomes mainstream or not, as long as i can use it, great.
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I am lost
By mhar on 21.03.2009 - 07:03