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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. FMSIAPFHP!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Michael Sims Is A Pompous Fuckhead Post !!

  2. There is something by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    called Dillo that works for casual browsing. It has much fewer bugs and still retains all the functionality needed to have a decent web experience. Unfortunately there are no Windows or Mac ports.

  3. Re:A Word on Mozilla by LordNimon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who modded the above as informative? It's purely an opinion! I use Mozilla and IE on both Mac and Windows, and I prefer Mozilla. I'm sure there are lots of people who prefer Mozilla, and there are plenty who prefer IE.

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  4. STOP MODDING SexyKellyOsbourne UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    SexyKellyOsbourne, Just have a look at her journal and past posting. Keeping users like this unheard is a nice small step to cleaning up /.

  5. REPUBLICANS TAKE CONTROL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank-you to all you slashdoters who read my messages over the past few weeks and voted republican. We didn't take the governor seat hear in Michigan, but virtually every other state office went republican and it looks like republicans will control both houses and the legislative branch of our government for the next 2 years. {woo-hoo!!!} Thank-you so much for all of your support. As of this writing there are 51 seats that are republican in the Senate but we could have 53 by the time everything is said and done.

    Thank-you all!

    1. Re:REPUBLICANS TAKE CONTROL! by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Guns an Oil Wars for everyone! Troll

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  6. Symantec C++ compiler and Mozilla. by zymano · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why don't the mozilla coders use the free symantec c++ compiler ? Couldn't it make the browser faster?