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Story: Firefox security claims rubbished

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Firefox is inherently more secure than many other browsers (i.e. Internet Explorer). From the way security affecting choices are presented to the user to fundamental design features Mozilla and Firefox promote a far more secure enviroment than Internet Explorer.

Couple this with the fact that there are thousands of volunteers who are willing to post sescurity flaw fixes straight to the internet (and don't have to wait for marketing driven periodic patch releases), it is obvious that Firefox will continue to be - although not immune - certainly far better able to handle, security hurdles.

Just look at the statistics for computers infected with Adware. In the UK more than half broadband Internet Explorer users are infected with Adware (many probably due to inadvertly installing Adware from websites), wheras far, far fewer Firefox users are.

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