How to kill a web browser

How to kill a web browser

Posted Oct 21, 2004 11:56 UTC (Thu) by zezaz (subscriber, #5465)
In reply to: How to kill a web browser by melevittfl
Parent article: How to kill a web browser

This is most probably a security issue. If firefox dies like this, it should not be too hard for a competent cracker to write a page that relies on a buffer overflow to execute code on the client PC. This is not just about your browser dying.

I don't think that this article said there was magic in MSIEs more robust behaviour on this tests either. One of the biggest strengths of MS is the ability to hire the resources to make their products adhere to some quality standards. They relied on this to overcome all their concurrents.

This ability certainly has been much underestimated by many, claiming that IE was horribly bug-ridden, whereas mozilla/firefox/links/emacs-w3-mode... was much better because of code quality. This is the point of this article, and i completely agree with its author. MS should not be underestimated, and opensource programs should not be overestimated.

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