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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dinkeldog" data-source="post: 2921985" data-attributes="member: 195">A few observations:1)  I switched to Firefox quite a while ago.  a)  The security is better.  A web browser is not supposed to run certain commands that could compromise the security of your machine.  Any web developer should know this.  Some still break it because they want certain functionality anyway.b)  The University of Illinois at Chicago states on its log-in page that they wanted us to use Firefox for the security reasons.  I get my primary e-mail address from them, so I did as advised.  We're still not supposed to get our e-mail through IE since they claimed to trace the break-in to the school's e-mail site to someone running IE.  (As to the outlook-based e-mail services:  once bitten, twice shy--I would never recommend those to anyone, even now (and I do realize that they're not as awful as they once were.))2)  Tabbed browsing is a beautiful thing.  When I first found out about it from the blog of one of the Chicago Tribune's columnists, I was my usual skeptical self as to its value.  Now, for the life of me, I can't figure out why this isn't in IE.3)  A footnote to the security features issue:  there is a reason why there are very few viruses created for UNIX-type operating systems--it's nearly impossible to create a virus for those systems.  The user permissions required to do anything limit the damage a non-root user can do.  There may be fewer UNIX-type systems out there, but they do hold quite valuable information.  Break-ins to UNIX-type systems are usually caused by administrators who use simple passwords to their /root like "god"./moderator Having said that, remember that in many ways, this could be considered, like the Edition Wars threads, to really be a religious/political type thread.  Tread lightly before saying that everyone should believe like you or do like you do.  I will always advise people toward Firefox, but I would never pronounce it as, "The One True Way."/moderator</blockquote>

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