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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. Firefox is the most unstable program in common use by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Troll

    With the new version of Firefox, 1.5.0.5 and .6, Firefox is once again the most unstable program in common use.

    Version 1.5.0.4 was quite stable. Now the CPU hogging bug is back!

  2. That's enough buffer flows for all human history! by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Can somebody please tell me, why are we still having this discussion?"

    MOD PARENT UP!!!!

    I've been hearing about buffer overflows almost all of my long life! Let's have the OpenBSD (secure by design) people write one routine for buffer handling for each language and make everyone use it. Save people from boredom and frustration.

  3. The CPU hogging bug is back! by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Anyone else seen this again over the last week?"

    YES!!! See this comment: Firefox is the most unstable program in common use.