Re:Alternative browsers = more secure? (Score 2, Interesting)

The reason Firefox is more secure is because when an exploit is found it's fixed, with IE it takes a long time. Last year Firefox was vulnerable to exploits for 9 days while "Internet Explorer Unsafe for 284 Days in 2006." They also have a nice chart showing this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/technology/da ily/graphics/index20070104.html