full-disclosure - [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox

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From: bkfsec at sdf.lonestar.org (bkfsec)
Subject: [in] Re: IE is just as safe as FireFox

Rafel Ivgi, The-Insider wrote:

>Firefox is not intgrated to the OS, because it doesn't have an OS.
>Its just a trimmed Mozilla for windows..
>  
>
Not exactly... it's a mozilla core in a native application, as opposed 
to an interpreted XUL front-end.  It's a bit faster in both GNU/Linux 
and Windows.

>However Mozilla in Linux is integrated at some level...so they are just the
>same as I.E.
>  
>
No... it's not the same as IE.  Not at all.

What you're referring to is Mozilla's integration with Nautilus/GNOME.  
However, there are many people who don't run Nautilus/GNOME on their 
systems.  Even then, you're talking about Mozilla being a dependancy for 
an application suite (Nautilus) as opposed to a base-level operating 
system component.  In the situations where it is a dependancy, the 
intent is to provide a presentation engine, not a runtime engine like it 
is in IE. 

So, no - it's not the same thing as IE - not the same thing at all.  
It's not even the same in a rudimentary, high-level sense, and from a 
low-level API sense it's not even the same genus as IE, much less the 
same animal.

             -Barry