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re: Firefox security issues -- Pap
Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1311 messages posted)
gewg_
Sorry, I just couldn't resist the opportunity to poke & jab. 8)
BW
On Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 11:12 am, gewg_ wrote:
>||http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4925606.stm
>|| MartinM
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>|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
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>The article is sensationalist nonsense.
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>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.
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>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.)
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>When compared with Mozilla's patching history,
>Microsoft's looks like what it is: PATHETIC.
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>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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