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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. Security? by remembertomorrow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As long as people are running programs from administrator accounts, there will be far more security problems than there should be.

    Maybe when Vista comes out (circa 2020 AD) and becomes widespread, this problem will be alleviated a bit. Those of us using other OSes (Linux, MacOS, etc.) are fine at the moment.

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    Registered Linux user #421033
  2. Re:I believe... by lisah · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought it was "whet" as well but deferred to this site:

    http://www.takeourword.com/TOW114/page4.html

    for the final answer. I also prefered "whet" as in "stimulate" (always a good thing) but went with "wet" since it seemed to come first in the days of olde. At any rate, I spent more time looking up that than anything else pertaining to the submission 'cause I know you guys are all about the details. ;-)

    Now, I will go wet my whetstone and whistle while I do it.

  3. Re:Firefoxpacks by dvice_null · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have 4 computers that have Firefox installed on them. All those computers use Linux, so those installations are not counted at all. There are also loads of websites which offer Firefox downloads for their users, those are not counted either. And then we have companies that might have thousands of users and the it-staff propably downloads Firefox once and then copies that to all the computers. That is propably 199 million more downloads.

  4. Re:Opera?? Why Bother? by Handlarn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you're the web developer then isn't it your job to make sure that the site works well in Explorer and Firefox and Opera?

    You're the expert; why wait for a client to tell you they need their stuff to work on Opera? They might not even know Opera or Firefox exists. If I hired someone I would assume they'd make it compatible with all the major browsers without me having to explicitly say so. Besides, Opera seems to render contents very true to HTML/CSS standards (more than Firefox and Explorer, in my experience) and that alone seems to me to be a good reason to make sure it's compatible.