FireFox is More Buggy than IE
InfoWorld presents a report that shows FireFox has more overall patches than IE: "In the browser field, Firefox led the way with 64 bugs, compared to 43 for Internet Explorer, and 14 each for Opera and Safari."
In related news, the report also shows that Red Hat...
...has more patches than Windows: Red Hat has taken issue with the figures, claiming the accurate number should be 404 vulnerabilities for last year. Solaris came next, with 252 bugs, 80 percent of which were in third-party components. Mac OS X came after that with 235, 62 percent of which were third-party. Windows had only 123 bugs reported, but 96 percent of those were found in the operating system itself. HP-UX had 75 bugs reported, 81 percent of which were in third-party code."
There are some asterisks associated with these numbers, but its definitely an interesting study. Read the full article at: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/17/Red-Hat-and-Firefox-more-buggy-than-Microsoft_2.html
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I have no problem with firefox having more bugs than IE. But what does your study say as far as WHO FIXES THOSE BUGS FASTER???? Firefox or IE??????? I think we all know the answer to that one!!!! Fixing bugs on every second Tuesday of the month just doesnt cut it with me!
Posted by: Brigitte Bone | January 23, 2008 8:14 AM
Its funny you should mention just that because the article goes on to describe the patch rate for both products and speaks specifically to FireFox's faster rate of patching flaws. Now, not that I think that's necessarily a good thing. Microsoft's move to a monthly system for all but the most critical of problems is in my opinion a strength rather than a weakness. It brings some predictability to a process that otherwise means you're constantly on the lookout for new things to patch.
Posted by: Greg Shields | January 23, 2008 9:37 AM
And who paid for this study? And why is that in the past 2 years the only problem I have had with Firefox is because of Quicktime? And I have had to give up on IE6 and IE7 because they both failed continually. And IE6 and IE7 were far more hacker enabled than FF ever has been.
Posted by: Mark J Smith | January 23, 2008 6:42 PM
This is OLD NEWS man... The report was totally dissed about 2 months ago IIRC.
One issue was that - of course, the only bugs one knows about in IE are those that M$ decide to make public. How many more do you think there are that they don't want you to know about... With FF it's ALL public.
Move along - nothing to see here.
Posted by: The Open Sourcerer | January 24, 2008 12:24 PM