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

A Word on Mozilla

[krog]

When you're on a Linux machine, Mozilla is a fine choice for web browsing. And it has some nice features like tabbed browsing that soften the interface somewhat, and some like javascript privilege control which make the web more tolerable.

HOWEVER, the Mac versions are basically unusable and the Windows version is hurting. Mozilla still sucks when good web browsers exist on that platform.

The one thing it doesn't do

[Jack Wagner]

Sure Mozilla may offer some neat "underground" type features but the one thing it doesn't do is offer the ability to talk to a support technician on the phone when it won't work properly.

Todays market, more than ever, relies on support for a product and this is where Microsoft wins all the big corporate clients while Mozilla and other non coporapte sponsored rpoducts remain as basically toys used by tech saavy teens.

I've never walked into a Fortune 500 company and seen Mozilla running on a PC. Never.

Warmest regards,
--Jack

Re:Most are already fixed

[Xaoswolf]

That's funny, because every time I install a new version of Mozilla, I get a new bug, sure an old one gets fixed, but when it won't let me download, bookmark, or fill in forms, it's still pretty annoying.