Safari, Opera Users fall behind in Security Updates
A study today found that users of the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox 
Web browsers are far more likely to be surfing the Web with the latest, most protected versions of the browsers than users of either Opera or Safari.
Researchers at c Switzerland and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology studied through anonymized logs from the Google’s Web servers – 97 percent of chrome users were browsing with the most recent version within 21 days of that version’s release date. By comparison, 85 percent of Firefox users were surfing the most recent version within three weeks of a major new release.
The study’s conclusion praises the virtues of auto-update features, functionality that is built into both Chrome and Firefox, although in different ways. Chrome’s auto-update feature cannot be disabled, the browser checks for updates every five hours, and any available updates are automatically and silently installed.
Firefox checks for new updates whenever the browser is started, installs updates automatically and requires a restart for the fixes to take effect.
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