When free speech is outlawed, only criminals will complain.
Swa Frantzen at the Internet Security Center has found that people visiting their security related website are more likely to use use other browsers than Internet Explorer. He compares this usage to that of a travel site where over 75% of visitors used Internet Explorer. He also has data showing that the visitors to ISC who used Internet Explorer upgraded to version 7 a couple months before the travel site visitors.
Mozilla released an update to Firefox that addresses several security issues.
MFSA 2007-07 Embedded nulls in location.hostname confuse same-domain checks
MFSA 2007-06 Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) SSLv2 buffer overflow
MFSA 2007-05 XSS and local file access by opening blocked popups
MFSA 2007-04 Spoofing using custom cursor and CSS3 hotspot
MFSA 2007-03 Information disclosure through cache collisions
MFSA 2007-02 Improvements to help protect against Cross-Site Scripting attacks
MFSA 2007-01 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.0.10/1.8.1.2)
You can alphabetize your Favorites/Bookmarks by selecting Favorites (IE) or Bookmarks (Firefox), right-click one of the links, and select Sort by Name.
Have you noticed that Firefox can be a memory hog (still not as bad as IE7), especially when you have lots of tabs open? This might help.
0-day IE/Javascript exploit in the wild. Another good reason to switch to FireFox. If you insist on using Internet Explorer consider turning javascript off using the following directions:
A short list of recommended Windows applications for various uses. These programs are all free and stable.
Most of these are survivors from the last time I made such a list years ago. That’s all for now.