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Story: Firefox: The ultimate test for open source?

Posted by: Dave Rohde (Thursday 13 January 2005, 3:16 PM)

I installed Firefox a couple of weeks ago as a replacement for IE. I had a few buggy things but took the time to read some of the messages and help files available thru Mozilla.
In all honesty I have been using computers since the late 60's and have been communicating with them since the late 70's. I don't program beyond batch files but understand some of the deeper basics. Having fiddled with them for this long you kind of have to learn something.
I like knowing what's on my computer and who's leaving information and how that information is stored or collected. Most proprietary software comes with a price, not money, but privacy sacrifice. Maybe not to hackers but business, marketing and government. I'm not a crook nor a porn king but like my privacy. If I do a search on a topic I don't want to be tracked as the things I look at may give away what I am thinking about creating. I also think the storage of what I have done and been looking at should be fully accesible and deletable. With IE it's not and with Firefox it is as long as I use a hex editor to edit the files IE creates in the background when I'm on line.
I do not think it emotional or misrepresentative to state Microsoft has security issues beyond their proprietary rights. They have a great many "oops" situations which they leave go so marketing, business types and government would have no problems seeing and recording your information, not to mention hackers, who quite frankly could care less about my duck soup recipe.
Firefox seems to function well except on some sites that have been completely taken over by Microsoft scripting. So far I noticed it's most of the sites where communication of negetive remarks about government or technology might change minds. Go figure?