SillyDog701

[Nsmith]

Which is more secure, opera, Netscape or Mozilla??

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12

[EddiePaxil]

Which is more secure, opera, Netscape or Mozilla??

When I was using a PC I really took a liking to Netscape. Some really like Mozilla, Haven't heard muh by way of Opera. It's my experience that anything besides Internet Explorer is good.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12

[Antony]

Which is more secure, opera, Netscape or Mozilla??

Welcome to SillyDog701, you've come to the right place.

Firefox (or Mozilla) fixes security bugs pretty fast.
There aren't many attacks to Opera (compared to Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape).

Netscape 8 has a good site control allowing you to have per site based security control.

My recommendation... browse carefully, don't download unknown stuff, and don't click links on sites you don't trust.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412

[Don_HH2K]

If I may pull some statistics from the experts at Secunia...

Firefox: Mozilla Firefox 1.x with all vendor patches installed and all vendor workarounds applied, is currently affected by one or more Secunia advisories rated Less critical (2/5)

Currently, 4 out of 17 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
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Opera: The Secunia database currently contains 0 Secunia advisories marked as "Unpatched", which affects Opera 8.x.

Currently, 0 out of 0 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
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Netscape 8: The Secunia database currently contains 0 Secunia advisories marked as "Unpatched", which affects Netscape 8.x.

Currently, 0 out of 1 Secunia advisories, is marked as "Unpatched" in the Secunia database.
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Secunia claims that Netscape 7.2 is Less Critical (2/5), but I do not believe this claim, as there have been numerous security flaws in the underlying Mozilla 1.7.2 codebase of Netscape 7.2. Mozilla has since been upgraded, while Netscape 7.2 has not. My reccomendation: don't use it.
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My own web browser, [sdt=7971]Donzilla 0.7 PR2[/sdt], is subject to the same vulnerabilities as Mozilla 1.7.8. Both have a Less Critical rating and have three bugs.

My personal reccomendation: use common sense. I trust Donzilla and Mozilla 1.7.8 to be secure, and so far, secure they have been. It's common sense that prevents holes from being exploited. In Internet Explorer, though, it isn't. There are too many backdoors that can be exploited just by having an IE window open -- you don't even need to visit a web page. Take it from somebody that had it happen -- just days ago I believed that I could use IE on a server in the basement just to download PHP and MySQL. Having accidetnally left it open longer than I needed to, I came back and found my server a mess of viruses and spyware, so bad that my ISP called me and said to take the thing offline.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Donzilla/0.7PR2 (WML/1.3; WML/1.2; WML/1.1; WML/1.0)

[David Wonn]

When it comes to security, they don't get much safer than Lynx. It's always my first choice if I'm visiting any site that I do not trust. It's also the fastest browser out there. If I need graphics, OffByOne is my first pick on questionable sites on Windows, and Dillo or Links2 on Linux. I'm not sure which browser is comparable on a Mac, though.

But when I need more features, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, and Opera are all good picks. Since you posted on a Mac, I hear Safari is good too, though I haven't tried it myself. It certainly can't hurt to try them all out.

UserAgent: Lynx/2.8.5dev.16 libwww-FM/2.14

[Nsmith]

Thankyou all for your help!!!! Extreamly gratefull......

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