Germany Chooses Firefox

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The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) tested Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Edge to decide on the browser they would endorse for use by the German government. They did not test Safari or other browsers, just these four.

They had 21 criteria. They recommended Firefox, which passed all 21 criteria. Internet Explorer failed in 8 categories. No one should be using Internet Explorer. Edge and Chrome both failed at least 3, including:

Organizational transparency. (are their management and privacy policies clear?)
Can you block telemetry collection (are they tracking you?)
Do they offer a master password to protect your sign-in passwords?

Date: December 2019

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Home Forms About Current Newsletter subscribe Search All Articles Browse by Category Security Internet Mobile Business Hardware Fun		Germany Chooses Firefox Article for:Everyone Difficulty:Easy Importance: Mild The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) tested Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Edge to decide on the browser they would endorse for use by the German government. They did not test Safari or other browsers, just these four. They had 21 criteria. They recommended Firefox, which passed all 21 criteria. Internet Explorer failed in 8 categories. No one should be using Internet Explorer. Edge and Chrome both failed at least 3, including: Organizational transparency. (are their management and privacy policies clear?) Can you block telemetry collection (are they tracking you?) Do they offer a master password to protect your sign-in passwords? Date: December 2019 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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