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

Re:"from the must-go-faster dept."

[bdaehlie]

The Mozilla developers spend quite a bit of time on reducing memory usage and leaks. The issue is taken very seriously. All I said was that leaks exist, and that they don't indicate that Mozilla's entire codebase is sloppy. That doesn't mean Mozilla developers aren't doing anything about them or they think they are OK.

CyricZ, please stop trying to get attention by being dramatic and twisting words. Your criticism is not contructive, just uninformed and inflamatory.

P.S. Re: "the attitude of the Firefox developers" - I am only one Firefox developer. I am not speaking for any other devs.