This Week's Browser Fight: Will Security KO Speed?

Both Google's and Mozilla's latest browsers make copious use of JavaScript to gain a speed advantage, but that selling point could turn on them. More scripting makes it easier for someone to execute a cross-site scripting attack, one of the more popular ways of hijacking a computer. With IE8, Microsoft takes a different route to speed, which may give it a security edge, for a change
peed kills -- ask any cop -- and browser users are going to find that out very soon.

The browser wars heated up this week, with Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) More about Microsoft launch of Internet Explorer 8, Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) More about Google release of a new beta version of Chrome, and the debut of Mozilla's More about Mozilla Foundation Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox.

One of the main talking points for both Google and Mozilla has been JavaScript -- how it makes their browsers faster. It also boosts ease of use and enables more rich internet applications (RIAs), some of the benefits of Web 2.0, the companies s
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