I thought it would be fun to check out the security records of Firefox 2 and IE 7, since they’ve been out for a couple of months and they were both released around the same time. I went to Secunia, which is a good site to look at these things because they organize their advisories by vendor and/or product, which makes it easy to compare two products. Anyway here are the results:IE 7
4 security advisories
3 remain unpatched
Most severe unpatched hole is rated Moderately Critical (3 out of 5)
Most severe patched hole was rated Extremely Critical (5 out of 5)
Firefox 2
2 security advisories
1 remains unpatched
Most severe unpatched hole is rated Less Critical (2 out of 5)
Most severe patched hole was rated Highly Critical (4 out of 5)
So there you have it. So far, Firefox is more secure.
