I think the primary point to keep in mind is confirmed vs. unconfirmed. Mozilla cannot fix a flaw without you knowing about it. The public development process simple doesn’t allow this – well, not without some really good subterfuge, which I can tell you, most developers just want to CODE, not hide stuff.
How many unknown bugs or exploits have been fixed by Microsoft without accompanying news releases?
As well, consider the age of the product. Internet Explorer 6.0 has been out since October 25, 2001. (SP1 released September 9, 2002. SP2 released August 25, 2004. Wiki)
Firefox has been a stand alone product since 2004. Firefox is supporting many of the newer W3C standards that Internet Explorer has no intention of supporting, including CSS2 and new facets of DHTML. Firefox is under active development and active deployment.
If you want a true comparison, let’s do a feature addition/bug ratio comparison, shall we? I mean, if you have half a clue you dismiss Symantec’s report and you seriously question continuing use of their antivirus products because a company that states an opinion like that has blinders on when it comes to determining the real issues.
Anonymous:
September 21st, 2005 at 12:27 am
I think the primary point to keep in mind is confirmed vs. unconfirmed. Mozilla cannot fix a flaw without you knowing about it. The public development process simple doesn’t allow this – well, not without some really good subterfuge, which I can tell you, most developers just want to CODE, not hide stuff.
How many unknown bugs or exploits have been fixed by Microsoft without accompanying news releases?
As well, consider the age of the product. Internet Explorer 6.0 has been out since October 25, 2001. (SP1 released September 9, 2002. SP2 released August 25, 2004. Wiki)
Firefox has been a stand alone product since 2004. Firefox is supporting many of the newer W3C standards that Internet Explorer has no intention of supporting, including CSS2 and new facets of DHTML. Firefox is under active development and active deployment.
If you want a true comparison, let’s do a feature addition/bug ratio comparison, shall we? I mean, if you have half a clue you dismiss Symantec’s report and you seriously question continuing use of their antivirus products because a company that states an opinion like that has blinders on when it comes to determining the real issues.