Windows 7 - Security Firm Claims Google Is Conspiring To Kill Off Firefox

Brink · 12-16-2011

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Got your tin foil hats on? Good – you’ll need it for this. Earlier this week, Accuvant Labs released a study that named Chrome the most secure browser in all the land. Um, one problem: Google was the one that commissioned the study. But the story doesn’t end there! A couple of days ago, NSS Labs – an independent security research firm – released a report of its own, in which it dissected the flaws in Accuvant’s methodology and claimed that the Accuvant study was but a small portion of a wider plan by Google to effectively kill of Firefox. Oh snap!

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Petey7 · 12-16-2011

A company paying another company to say that the first company's software is the best. Nothing new. It being part of a greater plan to destroy Mozilla Firefox seems a bit crazy. Honestly, I think that particular author sounds like a Firefox fanboy. Does Google want a larger market share? Of course. But I doubt they specifically want Firefox to fail more so than any other browser. Of course, I have not been a fan firefox for many years, so I might be biased.

barbarossa2241 · 12-16-2011

Interesting.

lehnerus2000 · 12-18-2011

NoScript lets you block "google-analytics".

I'm sure that Google wants that stopped.