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Firefox Now Top Browser - for ’vulnerabilities’
Top o’ the world, ma!

10 November 2009

by Huw Collingbourne

According to security vendor Cenzic, Firefox has now overtaken Internet Explorer as the favoured browser for malicious attacks...



Apparently Firefox’s plugins are a major route by which gremlins gain access to the browser. This is a bit of a blow to all those happy Firefox users who have, for so long, been jeering at the ’insecurity’ of Microsoft’s browser. Such as the fruits of success, I guess....

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