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Is The Firefox Honeymoon Over?

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. haha Bitches by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    haha all you bitches. MSFT WINS AGAIN...

    Linux sucks,
    Firefox Sucks,
    You suck if you believe any non MSFT product will survive

    Look at SUN/APPLE for references..

  2. How's that number system work again? by Apro+im · · Score: 0, Troll

    1, 3, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 5, 3...?

  3. Re:Quality not Quantity by jerw134 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ActiveX is not a vulnerability. Stop trolling.

  4. amazingly enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Out of curiosity, what makes you claim that IE is better than FF?

    The number of vulnerabilities speaks volumes, the quality of firefox code is ABSOLUTE SHIT. We've all been moaning about IE but when it comes time to compete, firefox quality of development is EVEN WORSE.

    Our college has just issued a memo requiring the removal of firefox and any student caught using it will be restricted from campus resources, including the dormitory network. Linux users can use continue to use firefox but cannot connect to the campus network unless rebooted to windows. While its possible that students can sneak linux onto the network, they are now signing acceptable usage policies which specifically allow expulsion if caught networking with firefox or linux.

    (It'll help with the pornography and warez problem as a side benefit.)

  5. Re: Is the Firefox Honemoon Over? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why was that modded funny?

  6. Re: Is the Firefox Honemoon Over? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Watch what you ask for, you just might get it.

    nig nig nig

    You're of the George W. Bush school of speechifying, aren't you?

  7. Re:Firefox is harder to manage than IE by bruthasj · · Score: 0, Troll

    Moderators: Mod Parent as -1 Troll. This comment comes up *every* *single* *time* a FF article is posted.

    To Parent: there are resources, as other comments have pointed out. If they're not good enough, contribute via valuable avenues instead of cut and paste as a comment to slashdot articles..