Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Mar 2009 15:48 UTC
We've got two bits of good news, and one bit of bad news about Mozilla's Firefox web browser. Starting with the bad news - in 2008, Fiefox suffered from considerably more security holes than Internet Explorer and Safari. However, the first bit of good news is that Mozilla was much faster at patching zero-day exploits, according to a report by Secunia. The zero-day flaws of Firefox were also less severe than those of IE. The other bit of good news is that Firefox' upcoming Tracemonkey JavaScript engine is so good, the next Firefox release has been bumped from 3.1 to 3.5.
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RE[2]: Slightly deceiving...
by quodlibetor on Sat 7th Mar 2009 20:49
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Member since:2009-03-07
I specifically mentioned the open source argument and what it could mean for the skewedness of the report. What more you have me do?
read this: http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2009/03/06/beware-the-security-met... .
The main takeaway is that Mozilla publishes every security problem that they fix, whereas the other players only release the ones that are discovered and published by third parties. So that's 115 security issues discovered by mozilla compared to 35 (or whatever) issues discovered and published by secunia/white hats/etc.
It's an absurd metric and should only be brought up to be disparaged.
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I specifically mentioned the open source argument and what it could mean for the skewedness of the report. What more you have me do?