Once again Larry Seltzer contributes more FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) on another software subject. He has a long history of doing this unfortunately. Do a Google on his name and FUD if you want to explore ;) It seems PCMag, EWeek, and ZiffDavis continue to be the tabloid kings of the computing community, lots of shock work with not a lot of homework :)

The links given, which as Clint pointed out, don't work. If they did they would point to 3 bugs here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278629
The basic gist of this is to be sure you know the app you are adding to your browser, if you don't trust it then don't install it.


https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247412
The Linux bug is quite far fetched but possible, since every Linux user I know doesn't work in root but rather in their user space, I was always taught to work in the user space only as it is the prime security feature of Linux. It doesn't work in Windows environments BTW.


https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263609
This is difficult to reproduce and may attributable to a poorly coded page form as well.


Larry says that "unlike Microsoft, when Mozilla fixes a bug it doesn't release a patch for users" which is bogus, as there was a patch release late last year as seen here http://www.mozilla.org/security/shell.html

All software has bugs, period. Some get patched, some get regular version updates or service packs. Personally, I'm waiting to see if IE7 continues on with the same bugs that IE6 carried over from IE5 :)

Peter Kaulback


Roger wrote:
For those who are using Firefox, you might find this article
interesting.

http://snipurl.com/dgrc

Roger

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