Letters to the editor

Microsoft works on fix as Firefox is updated

http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2005/07/26/211088/...
> There have now been more flaws in the Firefox browser this year than
> in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
 
I think this needs considerable qualifying:
 
  * The Firefox team have fixed more things than the MSIE team this year;
 
  * MSIE has over six times as many outstanding (unfixed) bugs as Firefox;
 
  * MSIE's many outstanding flaws are rated "Highly critical", FF's few
    are rated "Less critical";
 
  * Working wild exploits for FF: zero; for MSIE: hundreds;
 
  * Because MSIE is closed-source, only a very few people can audit it, but
    anybody can audit FF;
 
  * This cannot be written off to popularity, since MSIE's exposure far
    outweighs the popularity ratio.
 
For some interesting if somewhat unnerving statistics, see here:
 
    http://nanobox.chipx86.com/ie_is_dangerous.php
 
For the record, I use the Konqueror web browser.
 
Cheers; Leon
 
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