A recent study by ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM, looked at log data provided by Google and came to the conclusion that large numbers of users are not running the most secure, up-to-date version of their web browser. The study also found that this was more a problem of Internet Explorer users than of Firefox users.
But limitations in the methodology used in the study call into question the conclusions reached by the author, according to an analysis of the study in eWEEK by yours truly. The Google log data was based on the HTTP user-agent string provided by the client browsers in order to identify them, and Internet Explorer provides much less precise data in its user-agent than other browsers. While Firefox provides data on the specific build of the browser, IE provides only major version information (IE6, IE7, etc.) So the study authors decided that everyone using IE7 was up to date (even those who hadn’t applied IE7 patches), and everyone using IE6 was insecure, even those who had applied all patches available for it.
We can definitely conclude from the study that Firefox users overwhelmingly apply patches quickly, which shows that they are probably more technical users with authority over their systems, and not mainstream corporate IT users who don’t have authority to apply such patches. IE5 and IE6 are still supported products from Microsoft because customers demand it, whereas Mozilla has already announced that support for Firefox 2 will end in December 2008.
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