Comments on: Firefox flaws account for 44% of all browser vulnerabilities.

By: viruzth

viruzth — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:38:07 +0000

What is firefox anyway. I gave up using firefox since 3.00.

By: Jones

Jones — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:11:44 +0000

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.

By: Force

Force — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:55:13 +0000

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: Beowülf

Beowülf — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:23:51 +0000

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)