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by grafio

V1.82 May 30, 2009 10:58:18 AM

Keep your eye on the security of popular Web browsers.

This widget shows the security status of the latest versions of IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari. The bars represent how dangerous is the worst unfixed hole (not the number of holes) - the lower a bar, the better security. The data about the vulnerabilities is loaded from Secunia site. It's refreshed once per hour.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The widget by itself DOES NOT make you more secure or protect you from anything. This is a general information accurate only for the latest versions of the browsers. Always use the most current version of your browser and install security patches!

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WOFall, are you sure? 1.73 works for me.

By grafio , # Feb 17, 2007 2:09:58 PM

I tried v1.72 a while back and it worked great. But after a while it stoped when Secuina changed their web page.

I just remembered it and came to see if there was a new version. There was. But tihs one doesn't work either. I suppose Secuina have changed their web page again?

Ah well, I suppose it's not vital - we all know the most secure browser anyway. But I hope it's fixed soon.

Keep up the good work!

By WOFall , # Feb 16, 2007 11:46:16 AM

great job sir G!

By mistah_pinoy , # Feb 14, 2007 10:59:51 AM

Nice widget!

By jarkendia , # Feb 11, 2007 6:59:50 PM

Very nice widget, saves me from having to look at the Secuina records for each, this widget gives a brief summary much quicker.

One question, does the widget display the number of actual security holes, or does it only display the number of advisories? (I can't check for myself since the number of unpatched security holes in each browser is equal to the number of unpatched advisories)
What I'm referring to is some advisories contain multiple security holes. For example, the most recent advisory for Opera 9.x contains 2 security holes.

It's no real difference either way in my opinion, since Firefox is the only browser that tends to have a large amount of vulnerabilities packed into a single advisory, and you said yourself this is only really to compare Opera's security with others.

By EJ902 , # Feb 10, 2007 1:20:34 PM

What I want is a browser that is secure and still be fast!!! Unless IE 7.0 is a big improvement over 6.0, we can all agree it isn't secure. And I have 7.0 and it isn't fast. I downloaded Firefox because I had problems with trojans and spyware from using the resource-hogging AOL browser. I read Firefox was very secure. Firefox was fast for like one day and then it kinda stops for a few seconds when I try to change tabs or scroll a webpage. I disabled everything that may have been stalling it (such as, the one add-on I got, pop-up blocker, anti-spyware, anti-virus) and I increased the cache from 50 MBs to 650 MBs. But, yet it still stalls. I did notice there are a lot of webpage errors in the log. So, I downloaded Opera (which I used a while back for a short time). Opera seems to be very similar to Firefox. They both also seem to be buggy. Opera froze-up twice on the first day using it. Give me a browser that is fast, stable, and secure please!!!!!!!!!

By TotalRecall , # Feb 7, 2007 4:31:18 PM

You wouldn't believe, but I've got the most secured browser

By Denisss , # Feb 3, 2007 9:48:22 PM

Nifty little widget Grafio.

Though from some of the "comments here I think you should reconsider doing a bit of "the most boring part of making a widget" by adding a 'About' along the lines:

"The Stay Secure widget displays the rating of the most severe unpatched vulnerability reported by Secunia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secunia )."

By ThePast , # Jan 29, 2007 9:46:12 AM

Love it!
Me and the wiget are smitten.

By Carnax , # Jan 21, 2007 5:46:58 PM

I love this widget--very informative! Amazing that Opera is more secure than Konqueror...Konq is my second-favorite browser, next to Opera, of course. I guess my tastes run to secure browsers? :-)

By sefitz , # Jan 19, 2007 11:56:53 AM

need a widget to clic on url ??

By gamerz , # Dec 29, 2006 5:33:21 PM

It's great if you're obsessed with security and charts

By alecsd01 , # Dec 28, 2006 12:09:23 AM

That's amazing considering that Firefox is debugged by Sun. Or at least they were, i don't know about know.

By yevon7 , # Dec 9, 2006 10:20:24 PM

So tired of the Firefox Fanboys. It's like a cult

By asyland , # Nov 26, 2006 1:35:10 AM

Some thoughts:
1. What FireFox fans are doing here?
2. After reading the page given by aleksanteri, in addition to his question I got another one: "Why Opera popularity not only the lowest, but tends to decrease (by 0.5% in 2002, 1.5% in 2005, 0.2% in 2006)?"

I personally use Opera in Windows and Konqueror in Linux (32-bit Opera doesn't work very well in my 64-bit Linux), but some things confirm that there's nothing perfect. And I have serious doubts that Opera is absolutely secure (of course, not the problem of this widget).

By Dinosaur , # Nov 17, 2006 6:28:38 PM

Fire Fox is easily the best web browser

By Grove07 , # Nov 13, 2006 4:07:13 AM

This is very suspect.

it said i had security holes fo safari, and some other browser.

Thing is, im on a pc, dont have safari or the other browser it said it had.

Im going to delete it.

By manofgames , # Nov 7, 2006 2:14:22 PM

I really like it. It's facinating to know how secure browsers are. It's through one resource...but it still is awsome. Keep up the great work!! Love the ideas for all your widgets!!!

By Poodleman , # Nov 6, 2006 5:09:44 AM

I Like the widget a lot i check the security of my browsers time by time. it would be nice to have a widget which ist able to check varius apps against secunia's page.

like a config dialog where you can ad the secunia-product to the widget and then get status for this app too.

By 1stMachine , # Oct 31, 2006 2:20:07 PM