Firefox is a web browser not an email client. Mozilla`s email programme is called Thunderbird which can be downloaded from http://www.mozilla.org/ along with Firefox. I would say that both of Mozilla`s offerings offer better security than their Microsoft counterparts-until the hackers decide to ruin them as well because of their new-found popularity.
I'd tend to assume that Microsoft's most popular competitors are more secure than MS in most cases.
In saying that, you could configure any program to be a security nightmare so the user is the least secure thing on a computer.
woohoo, one report of a flaw which has been reported to affect EVERY browser? I've not yet been convinced that IE is immune from this despite "some" reports.
Good luck world, this seems quite a sinister infiltration : the one where www.paypal.com looks exactly like
www.paypal.com!
As I said I use Firefox so I wasn't pointing out the bug to say you shouldn't use it over IE. When Firefox first came out it took 2 days for somebody to find a critical security bug.
The point was that there are a million and one hackers hell bent on the destruction of Microsoft. As single character goes amiss and it's literally on the BBC.
If you think there's just one security flaw in Firefox your mistaken there's plenty. A quick search in google will show you it's just as prone to such things as IE.