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Yup.Yup.Posted Apr 29, 2009 6:16 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Is this a joke? by sbergman27 Parent article: Firefox 3.0.10 released
If a project pushes out updates automatically then all the security sites ignore any security advisories regarding that software, and news sites like LWN.net decline to report on them. Is that *really* the case that you want to argue? No. Security sites don't ignore them, only news sites do. If you visit security database you'll find out that WebKit is vulnerable, Safari is too and Chrome is far from ideal - but they don't issue numbered releases to be downloaded from site so LWN does not issue articles on subject too. Yes, 1/3 of bugs (159 for Safari vs 455 for Firefox) is good achievment, but is it enough to say "WebKit doesn't seem to have this chronic problem"? You can not do apples-to-apples comparison between Gecko and WebKit: for Gecko there are just 5 CVE and for WebKit 27, but I find it hard to believe that out of 455 Firefox's vulnerabilities only 5 affect Gecko and some 450 are in different subsystems... The lengths to which some die-hard Firefox fans will go... the logical contortions they are willing to accept... to "prove" that the endless stream of security vulnerabilities in Firefox is really a good thing is beyond just worrisome. It's out and out scary. Yes, it's really scary. Only Firefox-haters are worse...
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