Is The Firefox Honeymoon Over?

prostoalex writes "With Firefox market share reaching a substantial level, is the popular Internet browser becoming a security nightmare for IT administrators? George Ou takes a look at the hard numbers. From the article: 'From March 2005 to September 2005 10 vulnerabilities were published for Microsoft Internet Explorer, 40 for Mozilla Firefox. In April-September timespan there were 6 exploits for MSIE, 11 for Firefox. Conclusion? As you can see, the facade that Firefox is the cure to the Internet Explorer security blues is quickly fading. It just goes to prove that any popular software worth hacking that has security vulnerabilities will eventually have to deal with live working exploits. Firefox mostly managed to stay under the radar from hackers before April of 2005.'"

Comments

Re:Quality not Quantity

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember 99% of people that have cancer have eaten pickles. That doesn't tell you squat about the relationship of pickles and cancer.

Great, another apologist for the pickle manufacturers...

Re:No Software is Perfect

[theskipper]

"I set MSN Search as my default search engine on Firefox"

I set my Firefox home page to open MSN search with the default search strings "openoffice.org google 'how do I replace microsoft windows with linux?'".

It's the little things that make life enjoyable.

Re:Quality not Quantity

[wo1verin3]

>> ActiveX is not a vulnerability. Stop trolling.

It's a significant point of weakness...

ActiveX is the screen door on the Internet Explorer Submarine.

Re: Is the Firefox Honemoon Over?

[jalefkowit]

Name ONE risky security flaw that has been known for 6 months without being patched by Microsoft.

ActiveX?