Dear Bloggers,

As a Microsoft certified professional, I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been included in discussions basically bashing Microsoft and their Internet Explorer web browser. I don’t seek to involve myself in these discussions, it seems like it just happens. Now I can’t give anyone specifics on how secure one web browser is over another, I can’t keep up with details like that but I have and supposedly always will support Microsoft and their core products revolving around their operating system and web browser. Now with that being said, I’ve just seen the following headlines:

Mozilla releases Firefox 14 to close several major holes

Twenty-six bugs patched in Google Chrome 21 release

At a time when people were leaving Microsoft’s IE for Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome citing easier use and better security and blah blah blah, I feel like raising up my hands in victory and saying “whatchu got now, huh!?!?”. These web browsers that have been preached to me over and over again as the “better” browser are now the ones scrambling to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities. One article reports 14 vulnerabilities in Firefox, 5 of which are labeled as critical. Chrome has twenty-six vulnerabilities, with 6 classified at “high-priority”. Twenty-six?!?!?!  Hello insanity!

Microsoft’s  July 2012 Security Bulletin lists 2 IE9 vulnerabilities. Two. Who has the more secure web browser now, huh?  J

Until next time……

 

References

Colon, M. (2012, August). Mozilla releases Firefox 14 to close several major holes. Retrieved from http://www.scmagazine.com/mozilla-releases-firefox-14-to-close-several-major-holes/article/250797/

Colon, M. (2012, August). Twenty-six bugs patched in Google Chrome 21 release. Retrieved from  http://www.scmagazine.com/twenty-six-bugs-patched-in-google-chrome-21-release/article/253031/