||http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4925606.stm
|| MartinM

|Tell me it ain't so! FireFox has security issues?  Who'd a' thunk it.
|(Sorry to be an opportunist with your Post Martin, The devil made me do it.)
|It was inevitable.
| bob wells

The article is sensationalist nonsense.

Anything created by humans will have flaws.
**How those flaws are handled by the developers** is the key issue
The article does not address that, making it nothing more than pap.

Time-to-a-patch with Mozilla products is rarely more than 3 days;
typically, with *critical* flaws,
the patch is crafted (AND RELEASED) within HOURS.
(You don't have to wait till the following Tuesday to get it.)

When compared with Mozilla's patching history,
Microsoft's looks like what it is: PATHETIC.


NOTE: Moz's sore spot used to be that to "patch" their stuff,
you used to have to download and install a whole new browser package.
With v1.5 of Firefox, "incremental patching" has been instituted.

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