Mozilla Firefox users most likely to stay up to date with latest patches and updates

Mozilla Firefox users most likely to stay up to date with latest patches and updates

Security vendor Secunia has reported that as per their survey, Mozilla Firefox users are most likely to stay up to date with the latest patches and security updates.

They compared the various browsers used by internet surfers including Microsoft Internet Explorer and Opera.

The report was based on more than 350,000 software checks conducted by their free Secunia Software Inspector service over a period of five months.

The company stated in the report that 5.19 percent of all Firefox 2 users had missed security updates. This number was massive for users of Internet Explorer 6. Things were a lot better for the users of Internet Explorer 7 which was just recently launched by the company.

The disappointing news is for Opera users as its installations are least likely to be patched. Secunia found that 11.96 percent of all Opera 9.x browsers were missing updates.

One of the crucial reason behind Firefox’s success is the easy of updating the browser with the latest patches. Users do not have to keep track of the updates as the applications automatically gives them an option to update their installation when a new update is released. The users are also not required to reinstall the application from scratch. The fixes are installed while the browser is running and they are implemented when the user restarts the browser.

Opera in comparison just informs the user periodically if their installations are not up-to-date. Users are required to download the latest version and install them over their previous installation. This is not a very user friendly way and a lot of people decide to skip performing these steps.