Active X - Controls Help FFS

[TechMouse]

Independent research.

Opera has the least security holes. Firefox and IE are about even (i believe IE has more serious holes, but Firefox has more overal flaws from the article i read a couple of months back)

That people know about.

Don't forget the source code for Firefox is open, so security experts can look through it - hence it's much easier to find holes, and issue patches.

There are probably many more holes in IE, they just haven't been found (or fixed) yet.

Look up webbrowser benchmarks and FireFox usually ranks pretty low on page fetches and rendering.

Out of the box or when optomised?

As for system resources. On a PC system Firefox takes longer to start than IE, uses more memory than IE and i've had it crash on a stable Windows system more times than i care to remember.

This is possibly true. Though it does depend how many extensions you have installed.

The session restore functions are really helpful though.