Firefox

The jury is out, but Mozilla claims Firefox will be more secure than IE.

Even with increased popularity, the Firefox Web browser won’t face as many security problems as Internet Explorer, according to the president of the Mozilla Foundation.

“There is nothing that will be perfect,” said Mitchell Baker, president and chief lizard wrangler of the Mozilla Foundation, during a panel discussion at PC Forum here. (PC Forum is owned by CNET Networks, publisher of News.com.)

Still, Firefox, developed by the Mozilla Foundation, won’t harbor nearly as many security flaws as those that have Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and increasing popularity won’t change that, Mitchell predicted.

Some critics challenge that assumption. Symantec CEO John Thompson and other security executives have claimed that open-source programs will become more vulnerable as they pick up more users, because more hackers will become attracted to it.

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