Do Firefox Browser Bugs Matter?
Apr 22nd, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4472219.stm By Bill Thompson Open source means you can fix it yourself, if you like No program is perfect, but bugs in open source software are less of a problem, says technology analyst Bill Thompson. The Firefox open source browser is full of bugs, some of which are rather serious. In March Danish security firm Secunia reported that it had found eight. Some could be used to trick users into giving away confidential information. Others could let hackers get access to people’s computers. Every few days there are new ones. In fact the little red button that tells you a “critical” update is available appears almost weekly, sending users off to the website to get the new version and fix yet another bug or security hole. Since one of the main reasons people give for moving to Firefox from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) is that IE is full of bugs and vulnerable to attack, this might seem to show that it does not matter which browser y
