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Another Look At Mozilla's BugFix Rate

Posted by Zonk on from the must-go-faster dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog has published the results of a look back at three years worth of critical patches from Mozilla, and found that Mozilla typically ships updates for critical flaws in about three weeks, though in more than a third of the cases it pushed out a fix in ten days or less. The data comes just a few weeks after The Post published data from a similar study that found Microsoft averaged 130+ days to fix critical flaws. Slashdot also covered that study in a previous post."

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  1. Just one previous post? by Jugalator · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe it's just imagination, but I thought I've been reading these kind of stories on Slashdot since the dawn of time.

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  2. So much for "fixed within hours" by man_of_mr_e · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ok, I guess three weeks can be counted in hours, but that's a LOT of hours.

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  3. Be Fair by XMilkProject · · Score: 4, Funny

    To be fair, Microsoft's flaws are alot more serious, so it's only logical they will take longer to fix.

    <laugh\>

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  4. Re:That's a result of their past decisions. by Knuckles · · Score: 2, Funny

    linux users put up with recompiling everyhing if the fix "requires" it

    Not all linux users are on gentoo. When was the last time you recompiled your entire system because of glibc fixes? I haven't had to do that once in 9 years of using GNU/linux.

    except that windows users expect software to keep running no matter what

    That has to be the funniest thing I read all day.

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  5. It is just your imagination. by douglips · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot has only existed since 1997.

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    1. Re:It is just your imagination. by plover · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, and we all know that the dawn of time occurred precisely at midnight (GMT) on January 1, 1970. While it's rumored that time existed prior to then, there is no evidence for it in the syslogs.

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  6. Firefox is not the enemy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's important to remember that the enemy in TFA is Microsoft, not Firefox. It doesn't matter that Firefox has long-running problems that people have complained about for years. Firefox is Good. Microsoft is Bad. Remember that next time you want to complain about Firefox chewing a couple hundred megabytes of memory.

    Firefox's leniant users
    either your computer or what you're doing is the problem. Sorry. It doesn't matter if everything else works fine either. It is not Firefox.