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.

Comments

CPU and memory hogging bugs still there?

[Futurepower(R)]

Have the big bugs been fixed? Or is this just a mostly cosmetic release?

For years, Firefox has been the most unstable program in common use. Somehow the management of Firefox development has been that the big difficult things don't get done. Are things different now?

Re:Hi twitter

[dedazo]

Eventually you'll use this account the same way as all the others. You can't help it. They all started nice and good citizens of Slashdot but eventually turned into this and this, which is what got you into karma hell to begin with. You are being given a chance that you choose to throw away because you're too proud and self-centered.

In any case you'll just blame everything on M$ and carry on with the same useless drivel.

Re:Hi twitter

[freenix]

When I look at your account, all I see is Twitter posts. This can't be by chance, please go away.