An online poll conducted on the Naked Security site has come up with an interesting finding: Opera, a relative minnow in the web browser market, is reckoned to be a more secure browser than the likes of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.
We were interested in discovering which browser our readers would recommend to friends or family who had suffered a computer security problem.
The poll opened on the morning of Monday 3rd September, and saw Chrome and Firefox take an early lead with Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera lagging far far behind.
Everything changed yesterday, however, as Opera surged in its share of the vote. The Norwegian browser – which had earlier only been receiving less than two votes every hour suddenly was receiving five votes every minute!…
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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