Is The Firefox Honeymoon Over?

Posted by Zonk on Friday September 16, 2005 @07:10AM from the back-to-reality dept.

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.'"

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Offtopic joke by FatAlb3rt · 2005-09-16 11:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Reminds me of the guy who worked in the pickle factory and just couldn't resist the urge to stick his dick in the pickle slicer.

So one day, he did it.

Turns out, he got fired. So did the pickle slicer.