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Germany Conquers Internet Explorer, Plans Defeat of Firefox
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Posted by Donster on: 2010-03-23 15:51:53 227
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By Ray Willington @ HotHardware
If there's one nation out there who really, really cares about the digital well-being of their citizens, it's Germany. Just a couple of months after the country warned the general public to avoid Internet Explorer due to a raft of security concerns, the government has now done likewise to an unexpected rival: Firefox.
Once known as the runaway champion over IE and a browser that could actually be trusted against hacks, Firefox has grown so large that it's now considering one of the most targeted and slowest browsers available. We already heard that growing too large, too fast can do that too you, and we have definitely had our fair share of frustrations with the software ever since it hit 3.0 and seemingly went mainstream.
Now, the German government is stepping in to warn Internet surfers against the potential security holes in Mozilla's alternative to Microsoft's behemoth of a browser. The Federal Office for Information Security cautioned that "a Firefox vulnerability, confirmed by Firefox makers, could allow hackers to run malicious programs on users' computers." Firefox developers are already working hard on the next version in order to patch the hole that Germany is referencing, with a beta (3.6.2) already available for those who don't mind taking the risk of installing untested software. The comical part? Experts are suggested that switching to another browser might not be a great idea, either.
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