Firefox Lead Engineer On Origins, Security, And More

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 14, 2004 @04:53PM from the go-put-firefox-on-someone's-computer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet has an interesting interview with Ben Goodger, the lead engineer for Firefox. When asked to comment on critics' claim that Firefox has a better security reputation than IE because it doesn't have enough market share to attract trouble, Goodger responded with a one-two punch. "Firefox is better designed in a number of ways -- we have no "mode" that allows untrusted content to be executed automatically, for example -- no "safe zone. Another reason -- market share does not predict security. Apache has more market share than has Microsoft IIS, which has more holes than Apache." On Longhorn, he believes it will be a tough sell for Microsoft because of backward compatibility issues."

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Re:firefox vs. Nortons by EnronHaliburton2004 · 2004-10-14 18:04 · Score: 5, Funny

>Nothing to be concerned about.. have you tried
>explaining this to your customer?

Something about "Pack the computer into the box and ship it back. You're obviously too stupid to use a computer."

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