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Mozilla VP Talks the State of Firefox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what's-the-fox-up-to dept.

lisah writes "As Firefox downloads pass the 200 million mark, people are talking about how its security features stack up against IE7 and protect against malware. Mozilla VP Mike Schroepfer told NewsForge's Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier that security will continue to be an issue 'for anything written in native code' but Mozilla intends to meet the challenge by including JavaScript 1.7 with the browser's 2.0 release. Schroepfer also talked about the timeline of future releases and offered just enough information to wet our whistles for 3.0."

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  1. Realplayer bundling by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    As Firefox downloads pass the 200 million mark, people are talking about how its security features stack up against IE7 and protect against malware.

    Protect against malware? They're bundling with it!

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  2. Re:when Firefox becomes as insecure as IE by ivort · · Score: 2, Funny

    And When Opera Becomes more Popular than Firefox we can all move back to IE : )
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  3. Re:Security? by allusionist · · Score: 3, Funny

    AD 2101 Vista was beginning...

  4. The State of Firefox? by Billosaur · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't that near Nevada? Or maybe Montana -- my geography's not good.

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    1. Re:The State of Firefox? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think it's North Carolina's Portugal.

    2. Re:The State of Firefox? by Fallingcow · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh, come on. Everyone knows where it is. We all had to study ancient civilizations like Phoenix and Firebird in grade school, and they were located on the same land as the modern state of Firefox.

  5. Re:I can't wait until IE 8! by vux984 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can MS speak the same on IE 8?

    Of course they can, just not yet. You just need a bit of patience.

    After all how can MS know what features they'll be inventing or innovating before their competition has invented and innovated them first?? ;)