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A Few Firefox 3 Followups
An anonymous reader writes "Using data generated by the Mozilla Firefox download pledge page, the map on this blog post ranks countries, not by absolute number of pledges made, but rather on a per capita basis. This analysis yields some interesting conclusions about where open source is strongest and weakest."
Anonymous Warthog writes "That didn't take long. In a blog posting from the TippingPoint DVLabs security team (of Kraken and CanSecWest hacking contest fame), they confirmed that they reported a vulnerability in Firefox 3.0 to Mozilla a mere five hours after it was released. Additionally, there was a posting on the Full Disclosure security mailing list from someone that purports to have another vulnerability in the works as well. In the grand scheme of things, this probably means nothing to the general security of Firefox, but you can be sure the browser zealots on all sides will be watching carefully."
Finally, from reader Toreo asesino: "Microsoft have congratulated the Mozilla team by sending them their second cake (minus recipe) to Mozilla's Mountain View headquarters to congratulate them on shipping FireFox 3, which went live right on time last night." Congratulations are indeed due on both the browser and the release process — looks like the Firefox fever (despite some seriously taxed servers) resulted in more than 8 million downloads in 24 hours.
Early I had the the download counter up and I noticed Germany's downloads per minute jump to over 4000. The US was at around 1300, UK, Spain and France which have populations similar to German (give or take 20 million) at around 200. So I think unless the Germans really are that crazy about firefox and all started to download it at that exact same time then there must of been a bot automating the download from within Germany. As it stands Germany has about 800,000 downloads overall. UK - 340,000. France - 325,000. Spain - 330,000. USA - 2.8 mil http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/
Wow... wonderful. It's been out less than 24 hours, and there's already a gaping security hole found, and another in the oven. Lord only knows how many 0-day exploits have already been found and are going to be ready to go very shortly, taking credit card numbers, installing keyloggers, etc?
Good job Firefox! Maybe you can patch it and have the next "version" ready in a few more weeks.
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Russia is not "Easter Europe". Russian characters are used only in Russia. "Eastern Europe" uses Latin characters (and a few funny ones in addition, similar to France, Germany, Spain).
You should learn geography and languages before you speak.
Where do I download the source code for these Adobe and Microsoft products you're talking about?