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You can also simply update to FF 0.9.2 (which is Windows-only, so you *nix people can stop speed-browsing to update).

Notice: by the time anybody has heard about this exploit Mozilla had already released a fix for it.

How long have we been waiting for a Download.Ject fix?
 
It's not slower on my computer, but I suppose mine is relatively fast. 2500+ Athlon XP.

Firefox is better. No question. Using Firefox I don't get spyware/adware all the time. I keep IE around for a few sites that firefox doesn't work as well for, though.
 
The more extensions you install in firefox, the more bloated it becomes (fairly obvious). If you follow some of the tips & tricks in the firefox help section you can learn how to customize firefox to make it faster from stock (overclocking firefox? haha). Oh, and for those that use TBE try TBP (tabbrowser preferences). It's not a resource hog and it isn't really buggy.
 
Originally posted by: PorBleemo
I just noticed something odd, on Amazon IE uses 128-Bit SSL while Firefox uses 256-Bit AES for the exact same page...
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I know that SSL and HTTPS sessions negotiate the highest mutually-supported encryption levels (AFAIK). I just noticed, going to that Sun Java 3D Lookinglass project site, that was in another thread, that it was also 256-bit AES using HTTPS on Firefox 0.9.1 here.

Does IE even support 256-bit AES, period? I would be willing to bet, that with Mozilla/Firefox's more recent development, that they probably support more crypto options than IE does.

All I ever remember seeing, in terms of patches and updates for MS OSes and IE, were "128-bit security" patches, which would seem at first glance to exclude things like 256-bit AES support.

So I'm basically going to guess that this is probably just an inherent limitation in current versions of IE.
 
I have found Firefox to be unstable when posting a message on the AT forums. It's a PITA. It seems to be happening when I push the "END" key while I'm typing the message. It crashes the browser and I lose my entire post.
 
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