Google's new browser

[Ghryphen]

Originally Posted by Stoke

Mrs. Stoke (in the IT Security dept.) deals with about 10 or 12 "updates" per week for some sort of IE vulnerability.

Then those are items which are no longer vulnerabilities. Updates don't suggest vulnerability, they suggest security. A bug that is fixed is not still a bug. That absence of reported vulnerabilities doesn't make something more secure. In my experience, someone who gets their computer compromised while using IE is just as likely to get their computer compromised by FF, most are user induced security problems.

Like I always say, I use IE, hack me.

[Banne]

Originally Posted by Gryphon

Like I always say, I use IE, hack me.

okay! Let me get my axe! Hehe. But in all seriousness I downloaded Chrome almost immediately after it came out, and I love it. I am basically splitting time on IE and Chrome, mostly because there are a lot of sites that dont support Chrome for some reason or another, and some of the video codecs arent tweaked yet, so you cant watch some flash videos (I believe thats the case at least, the MLB.com ones were on-again off again). Also, some of the Java scripts dont work properly with it. They will get there. It is fast, and nice. And as far as IE security goes, Ive never had a problem with it. Then again, I dont trust my internet security to Microsoft, I entrust it to the fine people at McAfee.

[SilverTalon]

Originally Posted by Banne

mostly because there are a lot of sites that dont support Chrome for some reason or another

9 times out of 10, it won't work because they included IE-specific content. That's the main reason I dislike IE...it's less a web browser and more an effort by Microsoft to force de facto web standards down people's throats that they then don't port to other platforms or browsers so that you remain locked-in to MS products.

Sure, there's always going to be the "experimental" parts of the Internet where new standards are being refined since they don't spring from the mind of Zeus fully formed like Athena, but MS always wants to push things out before they're really done to try and bump up adoption and make it a standard after the fact. That pretty much summarizes all their security issues too...since I'm pretty sure the vast majority are ActiveX and similar cock-ups and not that IE can't handle rendering HTML.

I know Gryph is opposed to standards since he lives within range of the Redmond Thought-Control device, and I'm not a "Down with MS" hippy (since I live outside the range of Apple's Jobsian Reality Distortion Field), but with a public resource of the weight and societal import of the Internet....it's not good for any one entity to ever have control over it.

Google, arguably the closest entity to doing so, at least has the decency to attempt to play nice with others...