Firefox Add-on of the Week: Web of Trust
In this week’s security-themed freeware roundup , I called out Mozilla Firefox for not being that secure of a web browser as compared to the virtualization-friendly Google Chrome. And that’s still true. Unpleasant web sites can inject and exploit all sorts of nastiness in Firefox–not as badly as, say, the security lapses of Internet Explorer, but Firefox still contains the potential to open a door to your system’s innermost workings. If this happens because of some hosted exploit or less-than-friendly extension you’ve downloaded, you’re in for a world of hurt. Google Chrome, on the other hand, requires a separate exploit to somehow break its virtualization in tandem with malware that attacks the browser as a whole
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