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Mozilla: The Good And The Bad

Posted by timothy on from the 10-dollar-fine-if-you-said-ugly dept.

Rui del-Negro writes "According to this article at The Register, six security flaws in Mozilla were posted to BugTraq last weekend. They have not been added to the official Mozilla vulnerability list yet. But details can be found here, here, here and here (phew!). Finally, two other bugs were found, relating to loading GIF files (in several Linux browsers) and Mozilla's (JavaScript) implementation of onUnload ( ). Are they trying to prove they can beat Microsoft at their own game..? Or is someone just trying to win a prize?" On a brighter note, Zerbey writes "From Neil's Place here is 101 Things Mozilla can do which IE cannot. Very interesting reading and an excellent resource for convincing stubborn Internet Explorer users why they should switch. This article was also reported at Mozillazine. I'm still waiting for NTLM auth to be implemented so we can switch over at my workplace, the only reason we still have to use Internet Explorer."

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  1. 6 bug more !? by mirko · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, 21669 to go :-)

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  2. It's not surprising... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    to have some bugs attached to you when you're a giant red lizard.

  3. Re:Why users "should" switch by User+956 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or maybe you should make up lies and anecdotal evidence about how Mozilla "just works" and Internet Explorer goes "boopbeepboopbeepboop" and destroys half of your "really good" paper.

    That seems to be working for Apple.

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  4. *blink* by Dave2+Wickham · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Supports blinking text
    You can make text blink."

    *blink*

    This is GOOD?

  5. I opened this thread with mozilla... by gleather · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and my crotch started to burn. Is that bad?

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  6. Re:Why users "should" switch by falzer · · Score: 5, Funny

    TEN MINUTES of not responding oh a relatively new machine (2ghz P4, 1/2GB RAM) is NOT, by ANY means acceptable.

    Well, damn, your computer is so fast it can finish an infinite loop in ten minutes.

  7. Re:The 101 list is bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    hahaha asshead, you got fucking put in your place

  8. My favorite bug by Hard_Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favorit

    My favorite bug is wh

    My favorite bug is when mail cras

    My favorite bug is when mail crashes whenever I tr

    My favorite bug is when mail crashes whenever I try to sen

    My favorite bug is when mail crashes whenever I try to send a message

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