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Browser Vulnerability Study Unkind to Firefox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-beats-IE-on-my-linux-boxes dept.

Browser Buddy writes "A new Symantec study on browser vulnerabilities covering the first half of 2006 has some surprising conclusions. It turns out that Firefox leads the pack with 47 vulnerabilities, compared to 38 for Internet Explorer. From Ars Technica's coverage: 'In addition to leading the pack in sheer number of vulnerabilities, Firefox also showed the greatest increase in number, as the popular open-source browser had only logged 17 during the previous reporting period. IE saw an increase of just over 50 percent, from 25; Safari doubled its previous six; and Opera was the only one of the four browsers monitored that actually saw a decrease in vulnerabilities, from nine to seven.' Firefox still leads the pack when it comes to patching though, with only a one-day window of vulnerability."

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  1. 'unkind'? Talk about bias... by CPE1704TKS · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What is the deal with characterizing Symantec as being "unkind" to Firefox? The fact is that Symantec came out with a report that identified more security bugs in Firefox than IE. Why the "sour grapes" attitude about saying that the report was unkind? The truth hurts? I use Firefox just like any other good citizen, and I've almost never used IE unless I had to, so I'm not a Microsoftie. I'm just so tired of all this bias in slashdot where anything against MSFT is good and anything against OSS is bad. That's just not the case, and all this bias in the headlines just serves to trivialize what slashdot is all about.

    Grow up guys. If you want to bias all articles towards OSS and against MSFT, why don't you just change your slogan to "News for OSS Nerds". At least you'll be honest. As long as you attempt to portray yourself as a news aggregator that is relevant to all nerds, then keep the bias to your blogs.

  2. Re:Wrong Numbers by Jerry · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "... you money."

    ????

    Either you are an MS Shill, or you are totally ignorant of the fact that FireFox is FREE, or you are both ignorant AND an MS Shill. No one can be that dumb as to not know that FF is free, so you must be an MS Shill/fanboi.

    --

    Running with Linux for over 20 years!

  3. Opera once again! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Opera once again kicks major behind! Now tell me again why this over-hyped peice of garbage **cough cough cough cough FIRECRAP cough cough cough** gets so much attention when an obviously superior (and now completely free) browser exists **cough cough OPERA cough cough**