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BatVink
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Posted: 10th May 2005 23:30 Edited at: 10th May 2005 23:31
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The Mozilla Foundation has said it is "working aggressively" to fix two flaws in its open source Firefox browser...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4532127.stm

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Ian T
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Posted: 11th May 2005 00:22
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And if this was Microsoft they wouldn't even be fixing the problem for two weeks. Yet another reason to use Firefox

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Toby Quan
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Posted: 11th May 2005 00:33
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Quote: "And if this was Microsoft they wouldn't even be fixing the problem for two weeks"


They wouldn't? How do you know this?
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Benjamin
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Posted: 11th May 2005 00:36
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He doesn't.


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Posted: 11th May 2005 00:37 Edited at: 11th May 2005 00:37
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This is the problem with Firefox now; because of all the attention its been getting, because it isn't as bugged as IE, when it does get a bug and it's put on a website like BBC News, people think FF isn't as bug free as they thought.
But what really happens and which is a great 'feature' of firefox, is it gets fixed very fast, where as a company like Microsoft have to find time for the workers to sit down and sort the bugs out, rather than doing the work that was planned.

Firefox!

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Jess T
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Posted: 11th May 2005 00:38
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Quote: "if this was Microsoft they wouldn't even be fixing the problem for two weeks"


Don't you mean;
"if this was Microsoft, they wouldn't acknoladge it as a problem for two weeks, would then post a KB article about it, release a high security threat another two weeks later, then, finally, leave the actual update till the next major release"
...no?

lol.


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Posted: 11th May 2005 00:41
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If it's really special, they'd wait for next version of Windows.

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Posted: 11th May 2005 01:16
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Quote: "How do you know this?"


Because that's how long it takes them to recognize a problem

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BatVink
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Posted: 11th May 2005 01:54
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Quote: "Because that's how long it takes them to recognize a problem "


I think that should read:

Because that's how long it takes them to acknowledge a problem exists.

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Rob K
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Posted: 11th May 2005 01:57
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It seems that the bug may already be fixed in the nightlies. I am currently running a 5th May nightly build (ie. an alpha version of FireFox 1.1) and the Proof of Concept pages do not do anything.


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David T
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Posted: 11th May 2005 02:01
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Quote: "And if this was Microsoft "


...It'd have been posted sooner, and everybody would have replied "M$ sucks!!!!!1".

But because it's Firefox (which is after all royalty) nobody speculates about how bad being attacked would be and instead everybody acts strangely sensible

Facts are meaningless.
You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.
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Jeku
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Posted: 11th May 2005 03:54
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Quote: " And if this was Microsoft they wouldn't even be fixing the problem for two weeks. "


Actually apparently Mozilla has been aware of this flaw for months. I still trust Firefox over IE, but don't assume just because it's not Microsoft that they always fix exploits quickly.


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David R
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Posted: 11th May 2005 04:17
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Say what you want, but FF is still a great browser - and every program has its bugs.

Edit: just got a 'critical update' 5 mins ago - hopefully thats a good thing!

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