Mozilla: The Good And The Bad

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."

Comments

Simply not true

[jopet]

Rendering times depend on the content - some pages get rendered much slower in Opera than in Mozilla, and most get rendered about as fast in Mozilla as in IE. What *is* slower is the overhead of the UI, but this is a constant time overhead that is only noticeable on old and slow machines. And if Mozilla renders some pages slower than either Opera and IE I accept that, given the fact that both IE and Opera suck bigtime when it comes to standards compliance and CSS2 support.