Which is the most secure, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox? John Byrd
Mozilla Firefox.
It's not guaranteed safe -- it's had more than enough holes this year -- but in computing as in biology, parasites always attack the dominant system, and that is IE. Even if both had the same number of security holes, Firefox would still be safer.
If you want maximum security, then Opera looks to be more secure than Firefox, but the difference is pretty small. See Web browser security summary.
I use both Firefox and IE6, and I've found an auto-updated IE running on an auto-updated XP SP2, with blocks on JavaScript etc, to be secure enough for normal use. But it probably wouldn't be the best choice for scouring the darker parts of the net for cracks/warez/hardcore/whatever.
