Firefox flaws account for 44% of all browser vulnerabilities.

November 15th, 2009 . Filed under: Security. Tags: ,

Firefox accounted for almost half of all browser vulnerabilities in the first 6 months of 2009, according to a study conducted by California based Cenzic a leading web site security company.

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Of all the browser vulnerabilities tested, Firefox had 44 percent of the total, followed by Safari, which formed 35 percent of the browser vulnerabilities. Internet Explorer was third, with 15 percent, and Opera was at 6 percent.

This beats the popular perception that Firefox is the most secure browser.

Earlier too, Secunia had rated Firefox as the most vulnerable browser.

You can download the PDF report here.


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    By Beowülf on November 15th, 2009 at 5:53 PM

    Hmm… Begs the question whether you would really expect a browser by the likes of Firefox to be secure when it is a community project requiring input from various [unknown] individuals, but still with the competitive expertise..?
    (btw. I’m a proud user of Firefox 3.5x)

    By Force on November 17th, 2009 at 5:25 PM

    Crap! I wont believe this report. Its not the Firefox Browser. AFAIK Most of the vulnerability is in the extensions not the Browser.

    P.S: Am a Microsoft fan, But i use Firefox :)

    By Jones on December 9th, 2009 at 9:41 AM

    I work on Firefox, and I’m not surprised. They have more people working on “new features” than fixing existing problems – even security exploits!

    I submitted a security bug last year that wasn’t fixed for 6 months – the exploit could delete all your bookmarks and make Firefox unable to start anymore just by visiting a website – even with flash and javascript turned off.

    It really shows in how the browser runs. They blame every problem on addons because it’s easier than fixing anything. Instead they put people work integrating addon features that aren’t even popular (‘Ubiquity’ is a great example – who wants your location bar to work like a DOS prompt? Nobody huh?) Then take out features people use and say “this should be in an addon anyway – it’s easy to write, but I’ll let somebody else do it” – yeah, sure, thanks.

    They even violate cardinal user interface rules. For example, a UI is never never never supposed to become unresponsive – but sort a very long list of bookmarks, and bamn, frozen. Go to a page with intense javascript, bamn. Or a page with poorly written flash, bamn, crash.

     

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