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A Bad Month for Firefox

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the and-its-bugs dept.

marty writes "Februrary is not a good month for Mozilla developers. Infoworld reports about the efforts of Polish researcher Michael Zalewski, who apparently kept finding new vulnerabilities in the popular browser on a daily basis through the month, first postponing the 2.0.0.2 update, and then finding a remotely exploitable flaw in it immediately after its release."

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  1. Internet Explorer by bitsformoney · · Score: 5, Funny

    Solution: Stick with IE. Shoudda known.

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  2. Re:Bottom line by drsmithy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bottom line - the more people use Firefox, the more people look for bugs and vulnerabilities, the more people find them. The same thing happened with IE.

    But, how can that be ? We are constantly being told marketshare is irrelevant !

  3. I bet... by SharpFang · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bet if Lcamtuf heard he's being called a 'researcher' he'd be rolling in his grave.
    After dropping dead on place, that is.

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  4. Re:Compelling reasons to switch to 2? by arodland · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're also missing the annoying UI design and worse performance.

  5. Re:Bottom line by kimvette · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't use lynx, ever. I use links.

    Oh I know, I know, it's bloated, it has features 99% of users never use, but darn it, I'm one of those 1% of users and I need my full-featured curses-enabled links console browser! Point-and-click, baby! ;)

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  6. Ruh-roh! by authority69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is Scobby Doo writing the posts these days? What's "Februrary?" The month after "Janrurary?" Right before "Marrrrrch?"