Hmm interesting responses.
Lynx, yes, we should all switch to lynx. Especially for a forum such as this.
Why not, the forum is all text based anyway?
I'm not so sure about open source being easier to hack. Sure, it takes less skill to read a high level language, but to understand the security implications of coding flaws usually requires low level knowledge. In that case, you might find reading assembly to be quite easy, such as that given by a disassembler/debugger. In some cases it may even be easier to spot certain flaws from assembly. Of course, having high level source may help you quickly find a point of interest, and knowing how it translate down to assembly may help you spot many of those flaws from the high level source. So does it make it easier for hackers? Perhaps a little. But then, there are more people who can spot a flaw than there are people able to exploit such a flaw. Combine that with my belief that for the most part people are basically good (or at least usually too lazy to cause trouble), and you have enough people either submitting quick fixes, or at least pointing out things they don't want to fix themselves. Possibly. In short it could go either way. Most vocal people like to claim open source can help security.
Tabbed browsing is nice. That was the only noticable feature difference I saw that I cared about back in the day of IE6. Not really enough to switch over though, and IE7 added tabbed browsing.
CK9, I challenge your suggestion that more updates means something is more insecure to being with! You could have two equally insecure pieces of software, and only update one. That does not mean the non-updated one was or is now more secure. But yes, if something
needs to be constantly updated for security reasons, that could potentially mean something negative. Like say, the developers didn't know what they were doing.
I think it's mostly just an arbitrary preference which browser someone uses. I mostly stuck with IE because it was installed by default, and hence the lazy option.
I didn't really bother much with FF until I had to do some web development. The error console was occasionally a little handy there, but not particularly critical.
On an interesting side note, I've found IE takes substantially less memory that FF. I used to prefer IE for performance reasons before I got a new computer, just because that memory difference meant IE fit into available memory, whereas FF didn't and the trashing caused the whole system to slow down noticably. On a more modern machine with adequate memory, I haven't run into this issue with FF.
