Another Look At Mozilla's BugFix Rate

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."

Comments

So much for "fixed within hours"

[man_of_mr_e]

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

Be Fair

[XMilkProject]

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

<laugh\>

Re:It is just your imagination.

[plover]

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.