These frequent Mozilla security-related updates to the ever-popular Firefox browser beget questions. Whether Firefox has become this decade’s Internet Explorer? Is this browser intrinsically unsafe. Was it rushed to release without adequate testing to become an IE alternate ‘mom could use’? Very possibly. But when comparing Firefox to Internet Explorer never forget that the former with bad code just crashes leaving Windows unscathed.

And we need to commend the Mozilla team for acknowledging vulnerabilities and issuing updates no matter how minor the issue. Over the past 45 days there have been three incremental Firefox upgrades. The current Firefox 1.5.3 was released More >