NSS Labs Accuses Google of Undertaking Campaign to Knock Firefox Off The Market

[Black Hades]

wish more people would care about browser wars.

If that were hypothetically so Opera would have more users. If people cared about browser performance and all that.
When Chrome launched it was all about "Google's new kid on the block" the name sold more than what was under the hood. Admit it people.

Don't get me wrong, Chrome can be quite snappy, I'm just saying people cant always tell super fast from fast so they go with their favs. I think Chrome's UI is extremely limited, for productivity It's a no go, Firefox wins this round running circles against it.

I use Opera for 90% of my needs, best interface ergonomics hand down, blitz fast too. Only certain 3rd party Firefox plugins manage to rob it of it's productivity crown, plugins like FoxyProxy, AutoFormer 2 and a few others. And that's only because FF is popular and has more 3rd party content.

 

[xenocide]

Firefox 8 = 1 Advisory with 1 Vulnerability Unpatched
Chrome 16 = 0 Advisories with 0 Vulnerabilities Reported
Firefox 7 = 4 Advisories with 17 Vulnerabilities All Unpatched
Chrome 15 = 4 Advisories with 36 Vulnerabilities 75% of them Patched

Notice the only one that reached higher than 1 bar on the security scale was Firefox. Also notice how they didn't even bother to fix any security issues with Firefox 7 while Google fixed several with Chrome. Firefox 8 and Chrome 16 are too new to really use as a gauge, so using the older versions gives a better picture, and I would say Chrome is more secure.

I also find it ironic that anyone that would have the balls to actually say IE8 was the safest(AKA Most Secure) browser would have the balls to talk about anyone else's finding as being fud...

NSS has to have the biggest pair of solid brass balls on the planet to say IE8 is the safest browser, then try to say a competitor's finds are BS!

This is just a classic case of the Pot calling the Kettle black...

This is basically all that needs to be said. That and every time security experts get together for events like Pwn2Own, Chrome takes a day or two to crack and FF\IE\Safari take several SECONDS.