611 Defects, 71 Vulnerabilities Found In Firefox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 7, 2006 @03:50AM from the rolling-in-bugs dept.

Danny Begonia writes, "Some folks at Klocwork examined the large and complicated code base of the popular open source browser, Firefox. Overall, Firefox is a well written and high quality piece of software. Several builds were performed on the code, culminating in the final analysis of version 1.5.0.6. The analysis resulted in 611 defects and 71 potential security vulnerabilities. The Firefox team has been given the analysis results, and they will determine if or how they will deal with the issues." What are your thoughts — do Firefox and the open source community welcome this kind of analysis?

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Re:Obvious. by Mister+Whirly · 2006-09-07 06:22 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"Former Police front-man, Sting, once said something along the lines of, "Hearing someone say they don't like your music is like hearing someone your girlfriend is ugly.""

Which would carry a lot more weight if his girlfriend wasn't ugly. (and if all his post-Police work didn't suck)

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Re:WHICH Firefox? by aichpvee · 2006-09-07 13:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That's actually a good idea. How about they add a Linux Firefox or KDE Firefox while they're at it? I'm sick of having to use GNOME Firefox because it's the only one available.

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