The advantages and disadvantages of IE6 vs. Mozilla Firefox
IE --- Active Scripting Vulnerability --- no scripting in Firefox
Actually, Firefox does have scripting. Both MSIE and Firefox also run
JavaScript, unless the user chooses to disable JS.
IE ---- Closed Source -- great support from Microsoft -------- Firefox --
open source -- support from Mozilla Newsgroups
Closed source need not be less secure than open source. The bigger problem
with MSFT is lack of competition. As matters currently stand, MSFT seems
more interested in trying to keep Firefox from spreading than in serious
work on revamping MSIE to be more secure.
IE --- Windows Update Mozilla Firefox --- getfirefox.com for latest
version
This has zero to do with vulnerabilities. The means by which a software
vendor offers fixes to problems is irrelevant to the susceptibility of the
software to exploit.
BTW, I am not a big fan of MSIE; indeed, I prefer to use Firefox. It is
easier to lock down against malicious actions. But I don't think that you
picked the best points of comparison to show why Firefox is better than
MSIE. The ease of making sane configuration choices in Firefox, as compared
with MSIE, is my reason to prefer Firefox.