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Originally Posted by Unseen
Now, Firefox has almost become the new standard browser and so I'm pretty sure the hackers are giving it more attention than they used to.
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Partly true. Much of the reason that IE has such a lousy history of security is because of the manner in which Microsoft tied the browser to the operating system. The idea was to make using connected Microsoft products easier and to shut out competition. Unfortunately, this opened huge holes that were exploited over and over again.
With IE7 the integration is far less, which helps. But Microsoft still suffers from much legacy code that remains ripe for targeting.
Firefox certainly has vulnerabilities, but it is doubtful they will ever rise to the levels seen with IE 5 & 6 simply because it is not integrated with Windows.