Who knew?

All the while, you hear these open source types continually berate IE (& Microsoft) for being the bloated, slow browser.

Well, who wouldn’t want to be slow and bloated, if the consequences of being fast was to be on the highway to ID theft hell, and other victimizations.

Looking at the test results, if you put the fact that Firefox has 44% of all browser flaws in context with it’s market share, then the fact that it is a potential conduit for issues becomes more alarming!

In fact, the only good takeaway for Mozilla from this is that they weren’t as bad as Apple’s Safari, in aggregate. That browser, with just about a rounding error’s share of the browser market, commanded an astronomic 35% of all browser vulns. Not a typo: 35%. Of all browser errors.

What about Opera, those perennial Nordic whiners - whose invidious feelings towards Microsoft are well known?

How about a 6% vuln rate for their infinitesimal market share?

I can just see them running to the ED Directorate of Hurt Feelings to complain about the Cenzic report.

As you can see, Google Chrome was less than a rounding error: it didn’t even place!

Can we all stand up, and give a round of applause to Dean Hachamovitch and the Microsoft Internet Explorer Team for delivering the best and safest browser in the world, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.

Thanks, Dean.

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