ZDNet – “Firefox is the only browser that received top marks in a recent audit carried out by Germany’s cyber-security agency — the German Federal Office for Information Security (or the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik — BSI). The BSI tested Mozilla Firefox 68 (ESR), Google Chrome 76, Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, and Microsoft Edge 44. The tests did not include other browsers like Safari, Brave, Opera, or Vivaldi. The audit was carried out using rules detailed in a guideline for “modern secure browsers” that the BSI published last month, in September 2019. The BSI normally uses this guide to advise government agencies and companies from the private sector on what browsers are safe to use. The German cyber-security agency published a first secure browser guideline in 2017, but reviewed and updated the specification over the summer…” [Note – as a long term user of Firefox, be prepared to encounter regular warnings about insecure sites when you open embedded URLs from emails, articles and reports. Users are given the option to continue – I resist the urge to do so and often use the strategy of searching DuckDuckGo for alternative, safer links with the same/similar information.]