London Mozilla Workspace; photo by Mozilla in Europe
EVER since Edward Snowden left his mark on the world's news we have found out to what degree complicity (between corporations and the NSA) helped infringe people's privacy. Nobody does it like Microsoft, the unbeatable champion of lies and corruption.
I don't trust Google as far as I could throw 'em. As a company, it's entirely uninterested in my security or privacy, especially if it can make money by selling my personal information.
Trusting any software completely is a bit foolish, but anyone who actively trusts Chrome is a good subject for psychological study.
Canonical has announced a few minutes ago, September 17, that they've updated the Mozilla Firefox packages to version 24.0, on all their supported Ubuntu operating systems, making Ubuntu the first Linux distribution with Firefox 24.
The latest open-source Firefox browser release adds new user features and patches critical security vulnerabilities.
The open-source browser effort is aimed at fixing flaws and improving security in upcoming releases of Firefox.
About a month ago I asked Naked Security readers Which web browser do you trust? Your answer was emphatic: it's Firefox.
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The poor showing of Internet Explorer is notable but perhaps not surprising given that it is often imposed on users as a matter of corporate policy.
What stands out at me is the difference between the Mozilla and Google products. Both browsers are well established and well known open source projects, they both run on Windows, Mac and Linux and unlike Explorer or Safari neither come bundled with an operating system.
Perhaps Chrome users are more cynical or more realistic about where they place their trust. Or perhaps people who choose Chrome are also people who don't vote in internet polls.
We don't know but I suspect, as the comments on our poll seem to suggest, that the reason for Chrome's poor showing is that Google's claim to Do No Evil is simply no longer convincing.
Comments
NotZed
2013-10-02 03:30:27
The fact that they've convinced people otherwise is just effective marketing.
Also look at their approach to plugins. One can argue fairly strongly for the security implications but make no mistake, flash and java plugins are also competing with 'html5' as a platform. But betting the farm on 'html5' as a platform is a big risk for Mozilla because they will forever be playing catch-up and a company like google can make internet-breaking changes on it's own due to it's market share. It's already happened with video.