Re: The Pros and Cons of Firefox

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 04/26/05 

Date: 26 Apr 2005 18:38:39 GMT

In article <Xns96447E8E96CF6bobarcabca@198.161.157.145>,
Fuzzy Logic <bob@arc.ab.caREMOVETHIS> wrote:
:So basically Mozilla knew of 3 critical vulnerabilities but didn't bother
:to make this general knowledge for a few weeks until they had the patches
:to address them.

:Now if this was Microsoft you can be sure there would be a ton of enraged
:people screaming about this. Apparently because it's Mozilla it's alright?

I wouldn't know out of my own experience, but I have read messages
from people who have said that they had reported notable security bugs
to Microsoft and that the bugs had not been fixed (or publically
documented) a year later.

This is hearsay; I have no information with which to evaluate the
truth of or occurance rate for this. 

-- 
   Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
   not tried it.                             -- Donald Knuth

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