Paul Schmehl to Larry Seltzer: > My completely non-scientific, unsupported-by-empirical-evidence answer is > no. It's because people who use Firefox tend to be more aware of security > threats and the need to keep software up to date. It could also be (at > least in part) because Firefox has a built-in, enabled-by-default, update > available warning system. I would agree with both those reasons and add that FF updates are not hampered by the disabling of the inbuilt (and often seriously mistrusted) OS auto-update mechanisms. I also _suspect_ that a lot of pirated copies of Windows probably have system updates disabled. Regards, Nick FitzGerald
