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There are many myths about web browsers ,one is that Firefox is the safest browser in the world another is that Firefox is as just buggy and unsafe as Internet Explorer.

Well none of them are true ,or at least not totally true:
The safest browser is not Firefox ,it`s Opera and Firefox is way better than Internet Explorer wen it comes to saftety and everything else.

Don`t believe me?
I`ll show official proof from an official advisories site ,and from an unnoficial exploit site:

The official one is http://secunia.com/ let`s see how many advisories are for these browsers:

Internet Explorer : 104 http://secunia.com/product/11/
Firefox : 35 http://secunia.com/product/4227/
Opera : 15 http://secunia.com/product/4932/

If someone says that Firefox is not safer then Internet Explorer than he says that 104 is not bigger than 35.And you can clearly see that Opera has the less advisories.

I have proven this on the official side ,now here comes the unnoficial ,to show this I have choosen an exploit site http://www.milw0rm.com/ ,wich contains various exploits for all things.

You can clearly see at http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/browsers/ that the most and most dangerous exploits are for Internet Explorer and a lot fewer are for Firefox ,but the less and not so dangerous are for Opera.

My conclusion is never say "Firefox is the safest browser." or "Firefox and Internet Explorer have equal security flaws.".
Any opinions regarding these two myths and other related ones are welcome.

Nearly everything is better than IE
'The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.'
IE has nothing to do with the community, closed source, it isn't free (you have to buy Windows, and in that price you'll find IE's part...) and security patch-es often arrive too late...
FF is free, opensource, and has a huge community, so security updates can arrive in a short period of time.
While Opera is closed source, but it comes free, and has a strong community, the creators care about their users, they are willing to create the best browser there is, so it is ROCK stable and furthermore: secure.

I started with Opera, switched to Firefox, and after it went buggy, and sometimes crashed (and no session management, nothing...) I went back to Opera, and I'm using it know, and glad I came back

BTW, Hi DjDarkman

Hi NRG88 ,good to see you here ,btw ,to correct my post : I`m not considering Firefox a bad browser ,I think Firefox is a great browser ,but Opera is better for my everyday use and has a large comunity ,but do not underestimate Firefox ,because it will always be more secure and easy to use than Internet Explorer and this is not a myth this is based on facts.