Mitos Firefox?

Aku start pakai internet explorer dari tahun 1998. Masa tu memang sibuk habis orang guna internet.. kira internet boom la masa tu.

Pada masa tu jugak pengguna internet terbahagi 2, geng Internet Explorer (IE) & Geng Netscape (Navigator).. kalau ada pun yg lain yelah geng Opera.. tapi sikit sangat. kira elit aje la pakai Opera. Ohye.. kalau ada sapa sapa yang nak tengok merasa pakai browser zaman2 ni sila pergi sini: http://oldversion.com/

1. Netscape Navigator 2. Internet Explorer

Masuk 2-3 tahun lepas tu.. masa IE keluarkan versi 5.0, Netscape dah mula nampak goyang. Disebabkan skim "IE bundle sekali dengan Windows" oleh Microsoft, orang mula nampak bahawa Netscape ni dah tak relevan.. (ouch! )

Netscape struggle nak survive tapi disebabkan development yang kurang mantap menyebabkan Netscape baru lebih berat, bloted (istilah nak mengabarkan satu2 software tu besar & banyak fungsi berlebihan) dan perlu didapatkan berasingan (IE dah sedia ada dalam PC).

Netscape Navigator akhirnye R.I.P jugak.. IE tinggal jadik raja gunung. Dan bermulalah isu antitrust Microsoft di US. (search sendiri kalau nak tau lebih lanjut - takkan itu pun malas!)

Di sinilah jugak bermulanya rasa tak puas hati banyak pihak. Microsoft adalah sebuah kompeni yang dominan. .. dan selalunya pihak yang dominan ni banyak musuh sebab dia jahat.. heheheh..

Muncullah Mozilla browser - sebah foundation baru bagi platform Browser WWW. Tapi Mozilla masih tak cukup menarik perhatian umum sebab orang nampak dia ni macam x best. Branding dia pun macam gampang.. ade ke boh gambar godzlla? sekali nampak macam T-rex pun ada. Senang cerita - huduh ya amat!

Jadi geng2 mozilla pun mengambil inisiatif untuk membuat "re-branding" dan mengubah sikit sebanyak interface browser ini menjadi satu nama baru - Firefox.

Disebabkan nama yang catchy, maka orang pun terbukak la mata. dengan bersenjatakan terma "open source" (lagi sekali.. jangan malas kalau nak tau - search - wikipedia adalah sahabat anda!) dan kebencian yang meluap2 terhadap Microsoft make orang pun mula la tertarik.

Firefox enggunakan lambang "musang berapi" - satu simbol yang diinspirasikan dari mitos Jepun kalau tak silap aku la..

Firefox disebut-sebut sebagai satu browser yang lebih power, lebih kebal dengan serangan website jahat (?), mudah digunakan, percuma dan menggunakan apa yang disebut sebagai - "tabbed browsing". Maknanya satu window firefox boleh kukak banyak page serentak, tanpa perlu berderet2 kat taskbar. Menarik jugak nih.

Dengan kerjasama penyokong2 (fanboy) Firefox, browser ini menjadi macam satu selebriti (underdog - macam Mawi la konon - ceh!) di dunia browser. Firefox dianggap sebagai "messiah" kepada WWW. Penyelamat yang akan menegakkan keadilan dan memabawa pengguna ke jalan yang benar.. inilah dia masanya kempen "Spread Firefox" yang famous tu.

dan sekarang Firefox berjaya mendapat share yang besar dalam penmggunaan browser. Penganalisis (fanboy) menjangkakan firefox akan bikin IE bungkus. Cadangan ini ada logiknya.. terutama sebelum Microsoft mengeluarkan IE 7.

Bebelum IE 7, IE 6.0 tidak mendapat update selama bertahun2. Masalah2 security loophole yang kerap ditemui dan patch yang lambat menambah keberlagakan Firefox mempromosikan dirinya sebagai browser yang "selamat".

sejak 1-2 tahun sudah, ramailah jugak kawan2 dan kenalan (yang celik It & berkerja di bidang IT) jumpa aku dan bercerita kononnya Firefox lebih best, lebih :grand" dari IE. Firefox lebih selamat dan lebih banyak functionality (features).

Aju dengar telinga kiri keluar telinga kanan je la.. macamlah aku tak reti pasal internet.. Bukan la aku tak pernah cuba Firefox, memang aku ada install firefox dalam pc tapi jarang pakai. Salah satu sebah lagi yelah.. aku masa tu dah pun pakai satu lagi browser yang aku rasa 3-4 kali grand dari firefox.. nama dia MyIE! (karang le aku cerita pasal MyIE aka Maxthon nie)

Kenapa aku x minat sangat Firefox secara peribadi adalah kerana aku rasa FF ni slow, berat nak start, sistem tab yang tak menyeluruh dan macam2 lagi la. dan lebih penting lagi aku selesa guna MyIE.

Tapi sebenarnye, betul ke firefox ni bst sangat macam yg diaorang gembar-gemburkan tu..

Satu hari aku terjumpe srtikel ni:

We have all seen these banners before or heard people say "Firefox is Faster,
Firefox has Lower Requirements, Firefox is Secure, Firefox defends me from all
Spyware, etc." How misleading is it? Read on.

Disclaimer - This page is in no way affiliated with Microsoft, Comcast or
anyone else. This page does not claim the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation is the
originator of any of these Myths. This page is not an endorsement for any web
browser.

This page is not a review of Firefox. This page is not a comparison guide.
(Use the Freeware
Browser Guide to compare browsers) All Myths relate to running the default
install of Firefox in Windows with no Extensions. Please read carefully and look
at the sources.

The examples and sources are two different things, read the Myths Origins
sections for more information. Firefox Myths is designed to debunk the most
common Myths heard about Firefox - Period.

Firefox and Mozilla



Myth
- "Firefox and Mozilla are the same thing" - Example



Reality - Firefox started as
"Phoenix" in 2002, an experimental redesign of the Mozilla
Suite browser component. It officially became known as Mozilla Firefox in
2004. The name "Mozilla" in this case refers to the Mozilla
Foundation/Corporation which develops Firefox and developed the Mozilla Suite.
Official development of the Mozilla Suite ended in 2005 but continues as a
community-developed product known as SeaMonkey. - Source





Not for Profit



Myth -
"Firefox and Mozilla are Not for Profit" - Example



Reality - "The Mozilla
Corporation pays its employees from the revenues we receive from our product. We
are very fortunate in that the search feature in Firefox is both appreciated by
our users and generates revenue in the tens of millions of
dollars." - Source



"Now, the Mozilla Foundation, the
non-profit entity that develops and distributes Firefox, is forming a for-profit
subsidiary that will eventually capitalize on the browser's popularity. The
Mozilla Foundation will announce today that it has formed a wholly-owned
subsidiary, Mozilla Corp." - Source



"Unlike the non-profit Mozilla
Foundation, the Mozilla Corporation will be a taxable entity (that is, a
for-profit rather than a non-profit)" - Source



Legal Notice - Reproduction of
this page in whole or in part is strictly forbidden. This guide and ALL versions
thereof are protected by copyright under the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA). Feel free to link to this Guide. ^ TOP

Requirement Myths

System Requirements



Myth -
"Firefox has lower System Requirements than Internet Explorer"
- Example



Reality - Internet Explorer 6
has much lower minimum System Requirements than Firefox
2





Internet Explorer - Source



Minimum:

486/66 MHz CPU

16 MB of RAM

11.5 MB of free disk space

Windows
98



Notes - Anyone who claims Internet Explorer 6 will
not run on these requirements has never tested it.





Firefox - Source



Minimum:

233 MHz CPU

64 MB of RAM

50 MB of free disk space

Windows
98



Notes - The Recommended Requirements for Firefox are
much worse:



Recommended:

500 MHz CPU

256 MB of RAM

100 MB of free disk space

Windows
XP





Memory Usage



Myth -
"Firefox uses less memory than Internet Explorer" - Example



Reality - Internet Explorer 7
uses much less memory than Firefox 2.x. - Source

^ TOP

Performance Myths

Fastest Web Browser



Myth -
"Firefox is the Fastest Web Browser" - Example



Reality - Opera (now 100% Ad free) is the
fastest Graphical Web Browser in Windows. - Source





Faster than Internet Explorer 6



Myth -
"Firefox is Faster than Internet Explorer 6" - Example



Reality - Internet Explorer 6
is clearly faster than Firefox 2.x in 5 out of 7 measures of performance and is
significantly faster from a cold start. - Source



Notes - The argument that
components of Internet Explorer may load during Windows Startup is nullified by Opera's start times. Which
means there is no excuse for this except poor coding on Firefox's
part.





Faster than Internet Explorer 7



Myth -
"Firefox is Faster than Internet Explorer 7" - Example



Reality - Internet
Explorer 7 is clearly faster than Firefox 2.x in 4 out of 7 measures of
performance. - Source





Faster than Mozilla



Myth -
"Firefox is Faster than Mozilla" - Example



Reality - Ironically Mozilla
1.8 is faster than Firefox 2.x in 5 out of 7 measures of performance.. - Source



Notes - Considering Firefox is
supposed to be the lighter, leaner version of the Mozilla suite, this is very
surprising.

^ TOP

Market Share Myths

Market Share September
2006



Myth - "Firefox Gained Market
Share in September 2006" - Example



Reality - "Internet Explorer
has regained nearly 3 percentage points of the browser market since July, while
Firefox has dropped 1.4 points in the same period, a Dutch Web metrics vendor
said Monday." - Source - Source 2 - Source 3





Market Share January 2006 in
Europe



Myth - "Firefox Achieved 20%
Market Share in January 2006 in Europe" - Example



Reality - "As good as those
numbers are, they need to be taken with a grain of salt. XiTi performed its
measurements on a weekend, which means it captured a disproportionate number of
home users and comparatively few corporate desktops. Most large companies still
use Internet Explorer, so using weekend surfing activities as a baseline for
market share evaluations is going to miss out on a lot of IE use." - Source



Reality - "But XiTi's figures
should probably be taken with a pinch of salt, as Firefox usage tends to be
highest over the weekend, according to Tristan Nitot, the president of Mozilla
Europe." - Source





Market Share Gained in
2005



Myth - "Firefox Achieved 10%
Market Share in 2005" - Example



Reality - "According to
WebSideStory, a San Diego-based Web analytics provider, Mozilla's Firefox closed
2005 with 8.9% of the browser market, while Microsoft's
Internet Explorer wrapped up the year with 87.6%." - Source



Reality - "NetApplications said
that Firefox owned 9.6 percent of the market, and IE accounted for 85 percent."
- Source





Downloads



Myth -
"Firefox Achieved 150 million downloads in January of 2006" - Example



Reality - "Oops. We recently
introduced a bug into the counter and it's being fixed. We're not quite there
yet. Sorry for the confusion. We accidentally counted the 20 million people who
updated from Firefox 1.5 to Firefox 1.5.0.1 this week." - Source - Source 2

^ TOP

Security Myths

Security



Myth -
"Firefox is Secure" - Example



Reality - Firefox is anything
but Secure with multiple unpatched vulnerabilities allowing exposure of
sensitive data to local users. You only need one vulnerability to be insecure.
Since Firefox v1.x was released, users have been exposed to over 135
security vulnerabilities and counting.



Secunia - lists (137) security
vulnerabilities in Firefox, (90) rated Highly
Critical. - Source



Notes - The number of Secunia
"advisories" (37) does not equal the actual amount of
"vulnerabilities" (137). Over 10 advisories have multiple
vulnerabilities, look carefully. SA19631 - Lists 24 Vulnerabilities Alone!



Mozilla - lists (137) security
vulnerabilities in Firefox, (61) Critical. - Source



CVE - lists (201) security vulnerabilities in
Firefox. - Source



"In the excitement that surrounded its
launch last year, Firefox was unreasonably portrayed by some as having
unbreakable security, but the vulnerabilities that have been detected in recent
months are injecting a dose of reality into this myth, analysts say." - Source





Most Secure Web
Browser



Myth - "Firefox is the Most
Secure Web Browser" - Example



Reality - Opera is currently the most
Secure Graphical Web Browser in Windows. - Source





More Secure than Internet Explorer
6



Myth - "Firefox 1.x is more Secure
than Internet Explorer 6" - Example



Reality - Internet Explorer 6
has been more secure than Firefox 1.x in 2006. - Source



Firefox 1.x (2006) - 11
Advisories = 77 Vulnerabilities

Internet Explorer
6.x (2006) - 14 Advisories = 32
Vulnerabilities





Patch Time



Myth - "Firefox
Vulnerabilities are Quickly Patched" - Example



Reality - Multiple
vulnerabilities have remained unpatched for a long time. - Source



SA12403 -
Unpatched since 08-30-2004

SA12580 - Unpatched since 09-18-2004





OS Integration
Security



Myth - "Firefox is More Secure
because it is not integrated into the OS" - Example



Reality - "The issue of not
being part of the Operating System is an interesting one though that is
frequently the subject of misunderstanding. IE is part of the Windows Operating
System so that parts of the OS and other applications can rely on the
functionality and APIs being present. IE in turn relies on Operating System
functionality to do it's job. To be clear there are no Operating System APIs
that IE uses that are not documented on MSDN as part of the platform SDK and
available to other browsers and any other software that runs on Windows. The security of any browser is irrelevant to if it is part of the
operating system. If we are to debate security of browsers then let's
bring in relevant arguments and accurate details about different possible
attacks rather than rely on the irrational fear that because IE is part of the
operating system it must be exposing OS functionality to the web. This is not
the case as any software has access to the same set of OS APIs and can therefore
expose the same set of OS functionality as IE." - Source





ActiveX



Myth -
"Firefox is More Secure because it does not use ActiveX" - Example



Reality - "ActiveX
gets a bad rap as the cause of all of Internet Explorer's security woes. But
it's just not so. Old myths die hard! There's no doubt that Internet
Explorer has more than it's fair share of security holes, but very few of them
have to do with ActiveX. ActiveX controls are packages of code that can run in
the context of the browser. They are installable through a link on a Web page.
Exactly how different is this from having a link to an executable file that you
have to explicitly run? Essentially not at all, except that the ActiveX version
is more convenient. Even with Firefox you can download and run an executable
file. Does this make Firefox unsafe? In fact, Mozilla and Firefox's support for
XPCOM, a plain text and platform-independent software model, is very comparable
to ActiveX once you get the user to click "Yes." The complaint against ActiveX
has always centered around the ability to install native code from across the
Internet, but this is less unusual than it seems, and ActiveX arguably makes
things more secure. When you encounter an object tag referencing a control that
you do not have installed, you then have the opportunity to install it. Under
the default security settings, you will be warned before this happens and given
an opportunity to approve or reject the installation." - Source





Extensions



Myth - "Firefox
Extensions are Safe" - Example



Reality - Firefox Extensions
can be very unsafe.



A vulnerability in older versions of the Greasemonkey Extension
can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information by
disclosing the contents of arbitrary local files and list the contents of
arbitrary local directories. - Source



A vulnerability in older versions of the IE Tab extension allows
remote user-complicit attackers to cause a denial of service (application
crash). - Source



Multiple vulnerabilities in the Sage extension can be exploited by
malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. - Source





Solution to Spyware



Myth -
"Firefox is a Solution to Spyware" - Example



Reality - This is very
misleading and can lull users into a false sense of security. Use the free Secure XP Guide
to properly secure your system and get a REAL solution to Spyware. Firefox is
nothing more than a Web Browser. Installing Firefox does not clean your system
of existing Spyware infections or protect you from manually installing anything
in the future, including Spyware. These can come from Downloads, Email
Attachments, File Sharing and by other means. You can still easily get infected
with Spyware using Firefox as these exploits
demonstrate:



"Earlier this week, I blogged about a site doing a
bunch of different exploits, depending on what you are running. One of the
things the site will do is detect if you have Firefox, and attempt to exploit
it, using the InstallVersion.compareTo() vulnerability. There are actually a
number of sites running this exploit, and one of our researchers, Adam Thomas,
was kind enough to take some pictures. Going to a site with an older version of
Firefox got him just a bucket-load of Spyware." - Source



"Visit the same page in FF and, with the
JRE up and running, the below happens. Being a curious soul, I agreed to the
install - and quickly wished I hadn't! In a flurry of remote downloads, numerous
changes to the registry took place and a sizeable amount of IE specific installs
began downloading. Amongst the assortment was DyFuCA, Internet Optimizer,
ISTsvc, Kapabout, sais (180 Solutions), SideFind, Avenue Media and something
called djtopr1150.exe lurking in the Temp folder." - Source





Anti-Phishing



Myth -
"Firefox 2's Phishing Protection is better than Internet Explorer
7" - Example



Reality - "Internet Explorer
7's Phishing Filter finished at the top of 3Sharp's list as most accurate
anti-phishing technology, catching nearly 9 out of 10 phishing sites while
generating no warning or block errors on the 500 legitimate websites tested." - Source

^ TOP

Feature Myths

Bugs



Myth - "Firefox is Bug
Free" - Example



Reality - Firefox is like any
other software application and has plenty of bugs and problems. - Source





Memory Leak



Myth - "Firefox's
Memory Leak is a Bug" - Example



Reality - The Firefox Memory Leak is
not a bug. It's a Feature! The "Feature" is how the pages are cached in a tabbed
environment.

.. dan banyak lagi la.. untuk baca semuanya.. boleh pergi sini: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html

heheheh.. baru je tadi member aku tegur.. "kutuk Firefox, habis iklan kat sidebar tu apehal?"

"itu iklan la bodo.. ape ko ingat stesen Tv tu suke ke semua iklan yang dia tayang.. kapitalisma beb!"