7.2. Securing Your Web Browser
A web browser is a tool used to view data that is hosted on a web server. The two most popular browsers in use on the Mac are Safari and Firefox. They are similar in security configurations; however, Firefox has more granular security controls.
When it comes to web browser security, privacy protection is the name of the game. We want to keep prying eyes away from your online purchase information, away from your passwords for web merchants, and away from the history of web sites you have visited. When securing a web browser, much of the security falls into two categories. The first is protecting your computer from the browser and any executables (such as cached scripts) that can run on the client; the second is ...
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