Firefox has lots of security holes.

Its nice to browse through the forums here and see how many peole are constantly switching to Firefox.  They are saying that firefox is alot more secure than IE and that its rather stupid to use IE. I have news for you all, YOUR WRONG.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22008

Firefox does have its uses, but to tell people to stiwtch over to it becasue of its great security is one of the dumbest things that i have ever heard. Read the article guys, there are 21 holes in firefox while there are only 13 currently in IE. Fire fox is not the most secure borwser around.

Its also nice to see how many people say that if you use IE, you will have your computer bloated with spyware, another lie.  I use IE and guess how much spyware I have, NONE. Any competant user of a computer knows that if you actually watch what you install, then you wont get this crap on your system.

Now I'm not trying to bash Firefox here, i use both Firefox and IE. I just want to see people starting to get some of thier facts strait before they start telling people which is the best. Its all a matter of personal preference, none is really better than the others. And ALL BROWSERS HAVE SECURITY HOLES. Firefox is not excluded from that list.

In this case, the Inquirer is actually printing the truth, though it may not be the whole truth...
--Excerpted from Symantec's 7th threat report--
"The discovery of vulnerabilities affecting browsers appears to be on the rise (figure 3), with more Mozilla
vulnerabilities documented in this period than those affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer. This runs
contrary to a trend seen in previous periods where nearly all browser vulnerabilities affected Microsoft
Internet Explorer exclusively.
Between July 1 and December 31, 2004, Symantec documented 13 vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft
Internet Explorer. This is notably lower than the 21 vulnerabilities affecting each of the Mozilla browsers
that were documented during the same period. Six vulnerabilities were reported in Opera and none in Safari.
Though the share of vulnerabilities affecting the Mozilla browsers has increased, Microsoft Internet
Explorer still has a greater proportion of high-severity vulnerabilities. Of the 13 vulnerabilities affecting
Microsoft Internet Explorer documented by Symantec this period, nine were considered high severity. Of
the 21 vulnerabilities affecting the Mozilla browsers, 11 were classified as high severity, while only seven
affecting Firefox were highly severe. While there have been few, if any credible reports of attacks against
Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, or Safari in the wild, it remains to be seen whether these browsers will live
up to the expectations that many have for them."

As far as vulnerabilities go, the attackers will attack the browser with the majority, always.  In response to >>1, all of Mozilla's browsers may have more vulnerabilities than IE, however Firefox itself only has 7 critical ones, to IE's 9.  In the end, as long as you're a competant user, Firefox is still safer; so say the numbers.