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Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox suffered from 26 percent fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, a security company's research said Monday.
According to Symantec's tally, 40 Firefox vulnerabilities were disclosed between August and December 2006; Internet Explorer (IE), meanwhile, was hit with 54 bugs. Opera and Safari -- the browser Apple Inc. bundles with Mac OS X -- had four flaws each.
For all of 2006, however, the numbers were nearly neck and neck: Firefox was nailed by 87 flaws during the 12 months, IE by 92. More at PcWorld

03/20/2007 12:25 PM: Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 | 1.5.0.11 Released by [NT]
A new version of the famous FireFox browser has been released. A changelog is not available yet and Mozilla Website hasn´t updated but v. 2.0.0.3 is allready available at Mozilla FTP-Server. Downloa...

02/28/2007 07:57 PM: Portable Firefox 2.0.0.2 by [NT]
Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB k...

02/28/2007 11:55 AM: Firefox 3.0 opens door to Web apps, Mozilla says by [NT]
When Firefox 3.0 is released later this year, the open-source browser is likely to contain a host of new features, including offline support for Web applications and new bookmark and search features. ...

02/27/2007 07:08 PM: Mozilla fixes highly critical Firefox flaws by [NT]
VuNet reports: Firefox users are now receiving automatic updates that fix serious bugs in the open source browser. The update, which started being sent out at the weekend, fixes flaws that security f...

02/24/2007 06:56 AM: Firefox 2.0.0.2 Released by [NT]
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Nemo Unregistered

#66176 Posted on: 03/22/2007 11:18 AM In a related story "Firefox used by 90% less people than IE in 2006" "For all of 2006, however, the numbers were nearly neck and neck: Firefox was nailed by 87 flaws during the 12 months, IE by 92. " So basically they were the same.... and its the FF fanboys trying to put spin on it again.. looking at it.... with 90% more users.... then IE kicked FF's ass bigtime

TSThomas Junior Member Posts: 2 Joined: 2003-05-10

#66177 Posted on: 03/22/2007 07:42 PM What "spin" would that be? The fact that vulnerabilities were fixed 5 times quicker is just that - a verifiable fact. You are the one speaking of market share - which is completely unrelated to the topic. Perhaps you'd care to put some spin to your statements... again?

Jaybo Unregistered

#66184 Posted on: 03/25/2007 10:47 PM Sooo you are saying most people are idiots for using IE, right?

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