Firefox Security Track Record

Prefacing this with “not trying to get into my browser is better than yours” conversation.  That being said, there have been 44 known security issues in Firefox since the 1.0 release back in November.  I don’t have the IE (or any other software) numbers in front of me, but my initial guess is that this is pretty on-par for commercial grade software (if anyone has comparable numbers, please share).  So what is the point of this post then?  Proprietary or open source, paid developers or non-paid…security is just a damn hard arena to get right, regardless of the project at hand.  I do give kudos to the folks over at Mozilla for the prompt fixes though…that’s one area where OSS very much excels at.

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Only published comments... Aug 04 2005, 01:27 AM by Jayson Knight

Filed under: Technology and Internet, Links and News, Firefox

About Jayson Knight

Jayson Knight was clueless to the computer programming world until he took a C++ class in college. The rest is proverbial history. He has been building applications targeting the .Net framework for 7 years, focusing mainly on internet technologies and database driven web application development.

Most recently he left the world of Corporate IT to finish up his degree in Chemistry, with an eye on Medical School and an Anesthesiology residency program. Read this post for more information.

He is also a Community Server MVP: Community Server is the software that runs this site, plus many others on the web. For more information, check out http://csmvps.com.

When he finds time to pry himself away from his computer and university studies, he can be found on the mountain bike trails when it's warm, and on the ski slopes when it's cold.